DEAP and CLEAN Detectors for Low-Energy Particle Astrophysics – Andrew Hime

Date: Tue. March 7th, 2006, 11:30 am-12:30 pm
Location: Rockefeller 221

The unique properties of scintillation light in liquid neon and liquid argon make possible conceptually simple, massive, and highly sensitive detectors of low-energy solar neutrinos and cosmological dark matter. I will describe the program underway for the design and construction of two novel and complementary detectors dubbed DEAP (Dark matter Experiment with Argon and Pulse shape discrimination) and CLEAN (Cryogenic Low Energy Astrophysics with Neon).