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

DarkSide-20k实验是一项新的实验，旨在通过探测器中来自太空的暗物质粒子在氩核上的弹性散射来探测暗物质。当投入使用时，DarkSide-20k将很快成为迄今为止为MeV到TeV范围内的暗物质质量建造的最敏感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上的非标准中微子相互作用进行竞争性测量。该学生将开发和改进现有的暗物质和放射性背景过程的光发射、传输和探测模拟，并开发信号和背景识别的最佳方法，这些方法将应用于该新实验的第一批数据。

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.