Speaker
Antonia Hubbard
(University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Description
DM-Ice is a NaI(Tl) experiment searching for an annually-modulating dark matter signal. The DM-Ice17 detector has successfully operated in the South Pole ice for three years, and R&D efforts for the full-scale detector are underway at FNAL and the Boulby Underground Laboratory. I present an analysis of the muon background in DM-Ice, including long-lived phosphorescence observed in both DM-Ice17 and DM-Ice37. The DM-Ice17 muon analysis also includes events that are coincident with IceCube. The expected annual modulation in the rate of muons is observed.
Author
Antonia Hubbard
(University of Wisconsin, Madison)
