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M. Lafrenière
Researcher at Université de Montréal
Publications - 16
Citations - 1086
M. Lafrenière is an academic researcher from Université de Montréal. The author has contributed to research in topics: Dark matter & Bubble chamber. The author has an hindex of 7, co-authored 12 publications receiving 1012 citations. Previous affiliations of M. Lafrenière include Brigham and Women's Hospital.
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Dark Matter Search Results from the PICO-2L C3F8 Bubble Chamber.
C. Amole,Miguel Ardid,David M. Asner,D. Baxter,E. Behnke,P. S. Bhattacharjee,H. Borsodi,M. Bou-Cabo,S. J. Brice,Daniel Broemmelsiek,K. Clark,J. I. Collar,P. S. Cooper,M. Crisler,C. E. Dahl,C. E. Dahl,S. Daley,Madhusmita Das,F. Debris,N. Dhungana,J. Farine,Ivan Felis,R. Filgas,M. Fines-Neuschild,Francoise Girard,G. Giroux,M. Hai,J. Hall,O. Harris,C. M. Jackson,M. Jin,C. B. Krauss,M. Lafrenière,M. Laurin,I. Lawson,I. Levine,W. H. Lippincott,E. Mann,J. P. Martin,Deepam Maurya,Pitam Mitra,R. Neilson,R. Neilson,A. J. Noble,A. Plante,R. B. Podviianiuk,Shashank Priya,A. E. Robinson,M. Ruschman,O. Scallon,O. Scallon,S. Seth,Andrew Sonnenschein,N. Starinski,I. Stekl,E. Vázquez-Jáuregui,E. Vázquez-Jáuregui,J. Wells,U. Wichoski,V. Zacek,Jie Zhang +60 more
TL;DR: These data provide the most sensitive direct detection constraints on WIMP-proton spin-dependent scattering to date, with significant sensitivity at low W IMP masses for spin-independent WIMp-nucleon scattering.
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Constraints on Low-Mass WIMP Interactions on $^{19}F$ from PICASSO
S. Archambault,E. Behnke,Pijushpani Bhattacharjee,S. Bhattacharya,X. Dai,Mala Das,A. Davour,F. Debris,N. Dhungana,J. Farine,S. Gagnebin,G. Giroux,E. Grace,C. M. Jackson,A. Kamaha,C. B. Krauss,S. Kumaratunga,M. Lafrenière,M. Laurin,I. Lawson,L. Lessard,I. Levine,C. Levy,R. MacDonald,D. Marlisov,J. P. Martin,P. Mitra,A. J. Noble,M.-C. Piro,R. Podviyanuk,Stanislav Pospisil,Satyajit Saha,O. Scallon,S. Seth,N. Starinski,I. Stekl,U. Wichoski,T. Xie,V. Zacek +38 more
TL;DR: In this article, the PICASSO dark matter search experiment at SNOLAB was used to detect weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) with masses below 10 GeV/c 2.
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Improved dark matter search results from PICO-2L Run 2
C. Amole,Miguel Ardid,I. J. Arnquist,D. M. Asner,D. Baxter,E. Behnke,Pijushpani Bhattacharjee,H. Borsodi,Manuel Bou-Cabo,S. J. Brice,Daniel Broemmelsiek,K. Clark,J. I. Collar,P. S. Cooper,M. B. Crisler,C. E. Dahl,C. E. Dahl,Mala Das,F. Debris,S. Fallows,J. Farine,Ivan Felis,R. Filgas,M. Fines-Neuschild,F. Girard,F. Girard,G. Giroux,J. Hall,O. Harris,Eric W. Hoppe,C. M. Jackson,M. Jin,C. B. Krauss,M. Lafrenière,M. Laurin,I. Lawson,A. Leblanc,I. Levine,W. H. Lippincott,E. Mann,J. P. Martin,Deepam Maurya,P. Mitra,S. Olson,R. Neilson,A. J. Noble,A. Plante,R. B. Podviianiuk,Shashank Priya,A. E. Robinson,M. Ruschman,O. Scallon,O. Scallon,Andrew Sonnenschein,N. Starinski,I. Stekl,E. Vázquez-Jáuregui,J. Wells,U. Wichoski,V. Zacek,Jie Zhang +60 more
TL;DR: In this article, the PICO Collaboration thanks SNOLAB for their exceptional laboratory space and technical support, and also thanks Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359) and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory for their support.
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Final results of the PICASSO dark matter search experiment
E. Behnke,M. Besnier,Pijushpani Bhattacharjee,X. Dai,X. Dai,Mala Das,A. Davour,F. Debris,N. Dhungana,J. Farine,M. Fines-Neuschild,S. Gagnebin,G. Giroux,E. Grace,E. Grace,C. M. Jackson,C. M. Jackson,A. Kamaha,C. B. Krauss,M. Lafrenière,M. Laurin,I. T. Lawson,L. Lessard,Ilan Levine,D. Marlisov,J. P. Martin,P. Mitra,A. J. Noble,A. Plante,R. Podviyanuk,Stanislav Pospisil,O. Scallon,S. Seth,S. Seth,N. Starinski,I. Stekl,U. Wichoski,V. Zacek +37 more
TL;DR: The PICASSO dark matter search experiment operated an array of 32 superheated droplet detectors containing 3.0 kg of C 4 F 10 and collected an exposure of 231.4 kgd at SNOLAB between March 2012 and January 2014 as discussed by the authors.
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New insights into particle detection with superheated liquids
S. Archambault,S. Archambault,F. Aubin,F. Aubin,M. Auger,M. Auger,M. Beleshi,E. Behnke,J. Behnke,B. Beltran,Karl J. Clark,Karl J. Clark,X. Dai,X. Dai,Mala Das,A. Davour,F. Debris,J. Farine,Marie-Hélène Genest,Marie-Hélène Genest,G. Giroux,G. Giroux,R. Gornea,R. Gornea,R. Faust,H. Hinnefeld,A. Kamaha,C. B. Krauss,M. Lafrenière,M. Laurin,I. T. Lawson,Claude Leroy,C. Levy,C. Levy,L. Lessard,I. Levine,J. P. Martin,S. Kumaratunga,R. MacDonald,P. Nadeau,P. Nadeau,A. J. Noble,M.-C. Piro,Stanislav Pospisil,N. Starinski,I. Stekl,N. Vander Werf,U. Wichoski,V. Zacek +48 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reported new results obtained from calibrations of superheated liquid droplet detectors used in dark matter searches with different radiation sources (n, α, γ), in particular, detectors were spiked with α-emitters located inside and outside the droplets.