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PICO泡室中气泡膨胀过程中的声能发射建模

Modeling emission of acoustic energy during bubble expansion in PICO bubble chambers

Tetiana Kozynets, Scott Fallows, Carsten B. Krauss

摘要:

PICO实验使用充满过热C $_3$ F $_8$的泡室,用于自旋相关WIMP暗物质搜索。这些探测器中背景的主要来源之一是来自环境$^{222}\mathrm{Rn}$衰变的α粒子,这些粒子使气泡成核,这些气泡在视觉上与WIMP候选事件无法区分。α诱导的气泡可以通过声学来区分,因为来自α事件的信号在幅度上始终大于来自核反冲/WIMP样事件的信号。通过研究这两种类型的电离辐射成核的气泡从其生长的第一阶段的动力学,我们提出了一个物理模型的声学歧视的第一次。我们产生的模拟样品的气泡成核的α粒子和核反冲的声能分布进行了比较,直接的实验数据。

英文摘要:

The PICO experiment uses bubble chambers filled with superheated C$_3$F$_8$ for spin-dependent WIMP dark matter searches. One of the main sources of background in these detectors is alpha particles from decays of environmental $^{222}\mathrm{Rn}$, which nucleate bubbles that are visually indistinguishable from WIMP candidate events. Alpha-induced bubbles can be discriminated acoustically, because the signal from alpha events is consistently larger in magnitude than that from nuclear recoil/WIMP-like events. By studying the dynamics of bubbles nucleated by these two types of ionizing radiation from the first stages of their growth, we present a physical model for the acoustic discrimination for the first time. The distribution of acoustic energies that we generate for a simulated sample of bubble nucleations by alpha particles and nuclear recoils is compared directly to the experimental data.

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