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Dark matter experiment using Argon pulse-shape discrimination: DEAP-3600

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DEAP-3600 is a single-phase liquid-argon dark matter detector that at time of writing is cooling down in preparation for filling at the SNOLAB facility near Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. DEAP-3600 is designed and constructed to achieve a sensitivity of 10−46cm2 for a WIMP-nucleon cross section for a 100 GeV WIMP. The steps taken in design and construction to achieve the ultra-low backgrounds required for such a sensitive WIMP search are reviewed.

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  1. Department of Physics, Laurentian University, SNOLAB, 1039 RR24, Lively, Ontario, Canada, P3Y 1N2

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This article is part of the Topical Collection on Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Symmetries in Subatomic Physics (SSP 2015), Victoria, Canada, 8-12 June 2015

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Jillings, C.J., Collaboration, D. Dark matter experiment using Argon pulse-shape discrimination: DEAP-3600. Hyperfine Interact 237, 97 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10751-016-1305-6

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