MO-P7-7 17:00

Analysis Of PICASSO32 Data, Ken Clark , Queen's University — The PICASSO collaboration has proven the viability of superheated droplet detectors for use in the direct detection of dark matter. Currently detectors are running underground in the SNO laboratory. This talk focuses on the analysis of the acquired data. The extraction of the dark matter particle properties from the data will be discussed, with emphasis on modeling the response of the detectors to the incoming WIMPs as well as to the appropriate backgrounds.