SkuTek Instrumentation

We’re ready for you at #APSDNP24. Come say hello at?booth 2?and learn more about our work! We’ll be here until Oct. 10 all week.

We still do not know, but we do not know with a much better precision than before. We do not know what is the Dark Matter (DM) composed of. The LZ detector was built under the tentative assumption that DM consists of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles, aptly named WIMP's. These particles, if they interact at all, will create tiny flashes of light in liquid xenon. The photomultipliers (PMT) will see the light, and the electronics will detect and process the PMT signals. We built that electronics at SkuTek Instrumentation together with University of Rochester. The actual board assembly was performed by SCJ Associates, also a Rochester company. The electronics was deployed a few years ago at Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) in Lead, SD. It has been running 24/7 without a single failure. The results of the first 280 days of running time equivalent have been published. No WIMPS yet, but we still have 3x more planned running time. The University of Rochester press release is linked below. https://lnkd.in/eAVg3YtS

We are going to Washington to attend the Phase I SBIR conference. We will demo our new digitizer (upper picture) connected to two cosmic ray detectors (lower photo). We want to show in just a couple minutes that (a) cosmic rays do exist, and (b) they are coming from the zenith. It will be a very simple demo because we have only 2 hours at the exhibition table. A more detailed demo would also include data analysis, but we will have time to just show a live display. It will be convincing enough for the occasion. In a longer run we want to equip local schools with this kind of device and a variety of detectors for experimentation in basic physics.