Search for dark matter with EDELWEISS-III excluding background from muon-induced neutrons
Abstract (englisch):
The aim of the EDELWEISS-III experiment is to detect the elastic scattering of WIMPs from the galactic dark matter halo on germanium bolometers. Neutrons produced by cosmic muons reaching the underground laboratory are a problematic background, as they can mimic a WIMP interaction. Within this thesis, it was shown that the expected background induced by muons is negligible for the WIMP search analyses of the Run308 data and won't limit the future sensitivity of the experiment.
| Zugehörige Institution(en) am KIT | Institut für Kernphysik (IKP) |
| Publikationstyp | Hochschulschrift |
| Publikationsjahr | 2016 |
| Sprache | Englisch |
| Identifikator | urn:nbn:de:swb:90-532250 KITopen-ID: 1000053225 |
| HGF-Programm | 51.03.05 (POF III, LK 01) Dunkle Materie |
| Verlag | Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) |
| Art der Arbeit | Dissertation |
| Fakultät | Fakultät für Physik (PHYSIK) |
| Institut | Institut für Kernphysik (IKP) |
| Prüfungsdaten | 05.02.2016 |
| Bemerkung zur Veröffentlichung | Zugl.: Lyon, Université Claude Bernard, Diss., 2016 |
| Schlagwörter | astroparticle physics, dark matter, direct detection, cosmic muons, muon-induced background |
| Referent/Betreuer | Blümer, J. Augier, C. |