Journal article
Simulation and background characterisation of the SABRE South experiment: SABRE South Collaboration
E Barberio, T Baroncelli, LJ Bignell, I Bolognino, G Brooks, F Dastgiri, G D’Imperio, A Di Giacinto, AR Duffy, M Froehlich, G Fu, MSM Gerathy, GC Hill, S Krishnan, GJ Lane, G Lawrence, KT Leaver, I Mahmood, A Mariani, P McGee Show all
European Physical Journal C | SPRINGER | Published : 2023
Abstract
SABRE (Sodium iodide with Active Background REjection) is a direct detection dark matter experiment based on arrays of radio-pure NaI(Tl) crystals. The experiment aims at achieving an ultra-low background rate and its primary goal is to confirm or refute the results from the DAMA/LIBRA experiment. The SABRE Proof-of-Principle phase was carried out in 2020–2021 at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory (LNGS), in Italy. The next phase consists of two full-scale experiments: SABRE South at the Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory, in Australia, and SABRE North at LNGS. This paper focuses on SABRE South and presents a detailed simulation of the detector, which is used to characterise the backgrou..
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Awarded by Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation
Funding Acknowledgements
The SABRE South program is supported by the Australian Government through the Australian Research Council (Grants: CE200100008, LE190100196, LE170100162, LE160100080, DP190103123, DP170101675, LP150100705). This research was partially supported by Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarships and Melbourne Research Scholarships. This research was supported by The University of Melbourne's Research Computing Services and the Petascale Campus Initiative. We thank the SABRE North collaboration for their contribution to the SABRE South experiment design and to the simulation framework. We also thank the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation for the assistance with the material screening and the measurement of background radiation at SUPL.