Students are critical to any experimental program, both for its success and because experiments have inherent value for training the next generation of problem solvers. Below, please find theses from students who have contributed to the success of the PICO program. If a thesis appears to be missing, please contact the PICO web coordination team and share the information with them.
PhD Theses
Masters Theses
Studies on Radioactive Background Mitigation for the PICO-500 Dark Matter Search Experiment Shawn Miller-Chikowski (University of Alberta) (2024) |
Calibration of the Sensitivity of Perfluorocarbon Mixtures to Nuclear Recoil Jeremy Savoie (Université de Montréal) (2022) |
Neutron Reactions in Superheated Fluids Clayton Blaine Coutu (University of Alberta) (2022) |
Electron Recoils in the PICO Direct Dark Matter Detection Experiment Gevy Cao (Queen’s U., Kingston) (2019) |
Bubble Growth Dynamics For C3F8 Bubble Chambers. Alexandre LeBlanc (Laurentian University) (2019) |
Monte Carlo Simulations for a Tonne-Scale Bubble Chamber to Search for Dark Matter Enriqueta Noriega Benitez (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico). (2019) |
Undergraduate Theses
Effectiveness of Bubble Chambers at the Spallation Neutron Source at Oak Ridge in Detecting Coherent Neutrino Nucleus Scattering Michael Reid (University of Chicago) (2016) |
Modelling the acoustic response of PICO 2L using Finite Element Analysis Nicholas Buzinsky (University of Alberta). (2016) |