Monte Carlo simulation of the SABRE PoP background

M Antonello; E Barberio; T Baroncelli; J Benziger; LJ Bignell; I Bolognino; F Calaprice; S Copello; D D'Angelo; G D'Imperio; I Dafinei; G Di Carlo; M Diemoz; A Di Ludovico; AR Duffy; F Froborg; GK Giovanetti; E Hoppe; A Ianni; L Ioannucci; S Krishnan; GJ Lane; I Mahmood; A Mariani; P McGee; P Montini; J Mould; F Nuti; D Orlandi; M Paris; V Pettinacci; L Pietrofaccia; D Prokopovich; S Rahatlou; N Rossi; A Sarbutt; E Shields; MJ Souza; AE Stuchbery; B Suerfu; C Tomei; P Urquijo; C Vignoli; M Wada; A Wallner; AG Williams; J Xu; M Zurowski

Journal article

Monte Carlo simulation of the SABRE PoP background

M Antonello, E Barberio, T Baroncelli, J Benziger, LJ Bignell, I Bolognino, F Calaprice, S Copello, D D'Angelo, G D'Imperio, I Dafinei, G Di Carlo, M Diemoz, A Di Ludovico, AR Duffy, F Froborg, GK Giovanetti, E Hoppe, A Ianni, L Ioannucci Show all

Astroparticle Physics | ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV | Published : 2019

DOI: 10.1016/j.astropartphys.2018.10.005

Abstract

SABRE (Sodium-iodide with Active Background REjection) is a direct dark matter search experiment based on an array of radio-pure NaI(Tl) crystals surrounded by a liquid scintillator veto. Twin SABRE experiments in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres will differentiate a dark matter signal from seasonal and local effects. The experiment is currently in a Proof-of-Principle (PoP) phase, whose goal is to demonstrate that the background rate is low enough to carry out an independent search for a dark matter signal, with sufficient sensitivity to confirm or refute the DAMA result during the following full-scale experimental phase. The impact of background radiation from the detector materials a..

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University of Melbourne Researchers

Elisabetta Barberio Author

Phillip Urquijo Author

Anthony Williams Author

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Grants

Awarded by National Science Foundation

Funding Acknowledgements

The SABRE program is supported by funding from INFN (Italy), NSF (USA), and ARC (Australia, grants LE170100162, LE16010080, DP170101675, LP150100075). F. Froborg has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No 703650. We acknowledge the generous hospitality and constant support of the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (Italy).