Speaker
Michael Sloan
Description
Due to mysterious low energy, alpha like events reconstructing in the bulk of the DEAP-3600 dark matter detector, we look into the possibility of small amounts of dust particles being present in the liquid argon of the detector. Monte Carlo simulations of alpha decays inside spherical norite dust particles are produced and compared to data with hopes to explain these events. With some discrepancies between the reconstructed position of these simulated dust events and the data of interest, different position distributions of dust particles in the detector are tested to converge upon a realistic description of potential dust in the detector.
