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Master's Dissertation
DOI
https://doi.org/10.11606/D.43.2021.tde-05042021-154529
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Author
Full name
Ricardo Laranjeira Couto Pitta
E-mail
Institute/School/College
Knowledge Area
Date of Defense
Published
São Paulo, 2021
Supervisor
Committee
Carlin Filho, Nelson (President)
Padula, Sandra dos Santos
Paschuk, Sergei Anatolyevich
Title in Portuguese
Múons no experimento COSINE-100: seleção dos eventos, monitoramento do detector e modulação anual
Keywords in Portuguese
COSINE-100
detector de múons
Matéria Escura
Abstract in Portuguese
Pouco se sabe sobre a natureza da matéria escura. A sua existência é conhecida devido a evidências gravitacionais e muitos modelos teóricos sugerem a existência de partículas com propriedades esperadas para as partículas de matéria escura. Há um esforço global para a detecção dessas partículas e um dos experimentos observa sinais atribuídos à modulação anual da taxa de eventos de matéria escura desde a década de 1990: o experimento DAMA/LIBRA utiliza cristais de NaI(Tl), porém, nenhum experimento observou o mesmo tipo de sinal. O COSINE-100 é um esforço conjunto dos experimentos KIMS e DM-Ice, e com o uso do mesmo material do DAMA/LIBRA, tenta reproduzir ou refutar o sinal observado. O experimento iniciou sua operação em 2016 no laboratório subterrâneo de Yangyang (Y2L), na Coreia do Sul. Para garantir a qualidade dos dados, os fundos provenientes de decaimentos de radionuclídeos dos materiais e eventos gerados por raios cósmicos devem ser estudados. Os múons são uma importante fonte de fundos, pois induzem eventos nos cristais na região de interesse para busca de matéria escura. Além disso, durante o ano, o fluxo de múons sofre uma modulação anual. Esse trabalho se concentra no estudo de eventos gerados por múons e por isso, essa dissertação apresenta uma breve descrição do experimento COSINE-100, em específico os painéis plásticos utilizados para detecção de múons, procedimentos do monitoramento da estabilidade desses detectores e a correção de ganho, bem como resultados do fluxo diário de múons, sua modulação anual e sua correlação com a modulação da temperatura atmosférica.
Title in English
Muons in the COSINE-100 experiment: events selection, detector monitoring and annual modulation
Keywords in English
COSINE-100.
Dark Matter
Muons\' detector
Abstract in English
Little is known about the nature of dark matter. Its existence is well known due to gravitational evidence and many theoretical models suggest the existence of new particles with properies expected for dark matter particles. There is a global effort to detect these particles and one of the experiments observes signals attributed to the annual modulation rate of dark matter events since the 1990s: the DAMA / LIBRA, experiment uses NaI (Tl) crystals, however, no experiment has observed the same type of signal. COSINE-100 is a joint effort of the KIMS and DM-Ice experiments, and with the use of the same target material as DAMA / LIBRA, tries to reproduce or refute the observed signal. The experiment started operating in 2016 at the underground laboratory in Yangyang (Y2L), South Korea. To guarantee the quality of the data, the background signals from radionuclide decays of the materials and events generated by cosmic rays must be studied. Muons are an important source of background, as they induce events in the crystals in the region of interest to search for dark matter. In addition, during the year, the muons flux undergoes an annual modulation. This work focuses on the study of events generated by muons and, therefore, this dissertation presents a brief description of the COSINE-100 experiment, specifically the plastic panels used to detect muons, procedures for monitoring the stability of these detectors and their gain corretion, as well as results of daily muon flux, its annual modulation and its correlation with atmospheric temperature modulation.
 
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