Dark matter searches and neutrino measurements with the DarkSide-20k experiment

使用 DarkSide-20k 实验进行暗物质搜索和中微子测量

• 批准号: 2904779
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Manchester
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2904779
• 关键词: Dark; matter; searches; neutrino; measurements

The DarkSide-20k experiment is a new experiment aiming to detect dark matter via elastic scattering of dark matter particles from space on argon nuclei in the detector. When operational, DarkSide-20k will quickly become the most sensitive direct dark matter search experiment ever constructed for dark matter masses in the MeV to TeV range. This project explores the potential to expand the discovery potential of DarkSide-20k to non-standard dark matter models and perform competitive measurements sensitive to non-standard neutrino interactions on nucleons from solar neutrino sources. The student will develop and improve existing simulations of light emission, transport, and detection in DarkSide from dark matter and radioactive background processes, and develop optimal methods of signal and background discrimination that will be applied to first data from this new experiment.

Darkside-20K实验是一个新的实验，旨在通过从检测器中的氩核上的空间中弹性散射暗物质颗粒来检测暗物质。当操作时，Darkside-20k将很快成为有史以来为MEV到TEV范围的暗物质质量构建的最敏感的直接暗物质搜索实验。该项目探索了将Darkside-20K扩大发现潜力到非标准暗物质模型的潜力，并执行对来自太阳中微子源对核子的非标准中微子相互作用敏感的竞争测量。学生将通过暗物质和放射性背景过程中的黑暗方面开发并改善对光发射，运输和检测的现有模拟，并开发出最佳的信号和背景区分方法，这些方法将用于该新实验的首先数据。