Discrimination of charged particles in a neutral beam line by using a solid scintillation detector

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• 作者：Jong-Kwan Woo ; Jewou Ko ; Dong Liu
• 关键词：WIMP ; Dark matter ; Charged particle veto ; Solid scintillation detector
• 刊名：Journal of the Korean Physical Society
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：70
• 期：2
• 页码：213-218
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• 刊物主题：Physics, general; Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics; Particle and Nuclear Physics;
• 出版者：The Korean Physical Society
• ISSN：1976-8524
• 卷排序：70

文摘

In the past several decades, many studies have been conducted to search for non-baryonic dark matter, such as weakly interactive massive particles (WIMPs). In the search for WIMPs, charged particles incident on the detector are background particles because WIMPs are neutral. Charged particles originate from various sources, such as cosmic rays and laboratory materials surrounding the main detector. Therefore, a veto that discriminates charged particles can improve the particle-detection efficiency of the entire experiment for detecting WIMPs. Here, we investigate in the thickness range of 1 mm to 5 mm, the optimal thickness of a polystyrene scintillator as a chargedparticle veto detector. We found that 3-mm-thick polystyrene provides the best performance to veto charged particles and the charged-particle background in the search for the WIMP signal. Furthermore, we fabricated 3-mm-thick and 5-mm-thick polystyrene charged particle veto detectors that will be used in an underground laboratory in the search for WIMP dark matter. After exposing those detectors are the actual beam line, we compared the rate of charged particles measured using those detectors and the rate simulated through a Monte Carlo simulation.