Physics in Canada / La Physique au Canada - 2009 (65.3)

Search for Dark Matter with Picasso

Author(s)
Marie-Cécile Piro
Institution
Université de Montréal

The PICASSO project is a dark matter search experiment in the Snolab underground laboratory at Sudbury, using the superheated droplets technique. With new discrimination tools recently discovered, PICASSO published its first new results and became the leading experiments in the spin-dependent sector of direct dark matter searches.

Marie-Cécile Piro received 2nd prize in the 2009 CAP Best Student Poster Competition