TY - JOUR
T1 - The DarkSide-50 outer detectors
AU - The DarkSide collaboration
AU - Westerdale, S.
AU - Agnes, P.
AU - Agostino, L.
AU - Albuquerque, I. F.M.
AU - Alexander, T.
AU - Alton, A. K.
AU - Arisaka, K.
AU - Back, H. O.
AU - Baldin, B.
AU - Biery, K.
AU - Bonfini, G.
AU - Bossa, M.
AU - Bottino, B.
AU - Brigatti, A.
AU - Brodsky, J.
AU - Budano, F.
AU - Bussino, S.
AU - Cadeddu, M.
AU - Cadonati, L.
AU - Cadoni, M.
AU - Calaprice, F.
AU - Canci, N.
AU - Candela, A.
AU - Cao, H.
AU - Cariello, M.
AU - Carlini, M.
AU - Catalanotti, S.
AU - Cavalcante, P.
AU - Chepurnov, A.
AU - Cocco, A. G.
AU - Covone, G.
AU - D'Angelo, D.
AU - D'Incecco, M.
AU - Davini, S.
AU - De Cecco, S.
AU - De Deo, M.
AU - De Vincenzi, M.
AU - Derbin, A.
AU - Devoto, A.
AU - Di Eusanio, F.
AU - Di Pietro, G.
AU - Edkins, E.
AU - Empl, A.
AU - Fan, A.
AU - Fiorillo, G.
AU - Fomenko, K.
AU - Foster, G.
AU - Franco, D.
AU - Galbiati, C.
AU - Meyers, P. D.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2016/6/9
Y1 - 2016/6/9
N2 - DarkSide-50 is a dark matter detection experiment searching for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs), in Gran Sasso National Laboratory. For experiments like DarkSide-50, neutrons are one of the primary backgrounds that can mimic WIMP signals. The experiment consists of three nested detectors: a liquid argon time projection chamber surrounded by two outer detectors. The outermost detector is a 10 m by 11 m cylindrical water Cherenkov detector with 80 PMTs, designed to provide shielding and muon vetoing. Inside the water Cherenkov detector is the 4 m diameter spherical boron-loaded liquid scintillator veto, with a cocktail of pseudocumene, trimethyl borate, and PPO wavelength shifter, designed to provide shielding, neutron vetoing, and in situ measurements of the TPC backgrounds. We present design and performance details of the DarkSide-50 outer detectors.
AB - DarkSide-50 is a dark matter detection experiment searching for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs), in Gran Sasso National Laboratory. For experiments like DarkSide-50, neutrons are one of the primary backgrounds that can mimic WIMP signals. The experiment consists of three nested detectors: a liquid argon time projection chamber surrounded by two outer detectors. The outermost detector is a 10 m by 11 m cylindrical water Cherenkov detector with 80 PMTs, designed to provide shielding and muon vetoing. Inside the water Cherenkov detector is the 4 m diameter spherical boron-loaded liquid scintillator veto, with a cocktail of pseudocumene, trimethyl borate, and PPO wavelength shifter, designed to provide shielding, neutron vetoing, and in situ measurements of the TPC backgrounds. We present design and performance details of the DarkSide-50 outer detectors.
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U2 - 10.1088/1742-6596/718/4/042062
DO - 10.1088/1742-6596/718/4/042062
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:84981267530
SN - 1742-6588
VL - 718
JO - Journal of Physics: Conference Series
JF - Journal of Physics: Conference Series
IS - 4
M1 - 42062
T2 - 14th International Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics, TAUP 2015
Y2 - 7 September 2015 through 11 September 2015
ER -