DIDACTS Project Starter Kit

Background reading

Start with the Dark Matter direct detection wiki page and the XENON experiments wiki page.

XENON

• PhD Thesis, Jelle Aalbers - Audience is physicists, but is a PhD thesis so a bit more generally written. This contains an overview of the science, the XENON experiment, and details of the analysis.
• MS Thesis, Bart Pelssers - Broader audience and more detail on just position reconstruction.
• PhD Thesis, Bart Pelssers - The third chapter on position reconstruction explains the position reconstruction method used for XENON1T result.
• XENON1T papers
  • Data acquisition system - Overview of how data is recorded
  • Signal reconstruction - Overview on what is done to data after it is recorded.
  • First Results - Short paper giving an overview of the analaysis, physicist audience.
  • Detector - Overview of the detector design.
  • Data management - Overview of how we handle data
• Electron emission backgrounds
  • Investigation of background electron emission in the LUX detector - Similar detector, thorough study

DIDACTS

Notation is available in the notation subfolder in TeX or PDF form.

Running code

Github locations of interest:

• DIDACTS Organization - you are here
• AxFoundation Organization
• XENON1T Organization
• XENONnT Organization

Connect to our analysis machine at https://fried.rice.edu/jupyter.