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Monte Carlo Simulations For DEAP Liquid Argon Dark Matter Experiment*, Kati Nicolics , M Boulay , P Skensved , K Graham , Queen's University — There are many factors like the rotational curves of galaxies that imply the existence of something other than luminous matter, and several techniques have been used to search for non-baryonic dark matter. DEAP (Dark Matter Experiment with Argon Pulse Shape Discrimination) will search for dark matter particles by detecting scintillation light in liquid argon, discriminating beta/gamma-backgrounds using scintillation time information from photomultiplier tubes. Results of Monte-Carlo simulations of the DEAP experiment will be presented and compared to calibration data, including position and energy resolution, and background discrimination.

* This work is being supported by CFI NSERC