Design and Construction of the DEAP-3600 Dark Matter Detector
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/ Authors
P. -A. Amaudruz, M. Baldwin, M. Batygov, B. Beltran, C. E. Bina, D. Bishop, J. Bonatt, G. Boorman, M. G. Boulay, B. Broerman
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T. Bromwich, J. F. Bueno, P. M. Burghardt, A. Butcher, B. Cai, S. Chan, M. Chen, R. Chouinard, S. Churchwell, B. T. Cleveland, D. Cranshaw, K. Dering, J. DiGioseffo, S. Dittmeier, F. A. Duncan, M. Dunford, A. Erlandson, N. Fatemighomi, S. Florian, A. Flower, R. J. Ford, R. Gagnon, P. Giampa, V. V. Golovko
/ Abstract
The Dark matter Experiment using Argon Pulse-shape discrimination (DEAP) has been designed for a direct detection search for particle dark matter using a single-phase liquid argon target. The projected cross section sensitivity for DEAP-3600 to the spin-independent scattering of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) on nucleons is $10^{-46}~\rm{cm}^{2}$ for a 100 GeV/$c^2$ WIMP mass with a fiducial exposure of 3 tonne-years. This paper describes the physical properties and construction of the DEAP-3600 detector.