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实验是一项新实验，旨在通过探测器中氩原子核上来自太空的暗物质粒子的弹性散射来探测暗物质。一旦投入运行，DarkSide-20k 将很快成为有史以来针对 MeV 至 TeV 范围内的暗物质质量构建的最灵敏的直接暗物质搜索实验。该项目探索了将 DarkSide-20k 的发现潜力扩展到非标准暗物质模型的潜力，并对来自太阳中微子源的核子的非标准中微子相互作用进行敏感的竞争性测量。学生将开发和改进 DarkSide 中暗物质和放射性背景过程的光发射、传输和检测的现有模拟，并开发信号和背景辨别的最佳方法，这些方法将应用于该新实验的第一批数据。