Directional detection of Dark Matter
Astrophysics
2014-11-18 v3
Abstract
Among the many experimental techniques available, those providing directional information have the potential of yielding an unambiguous observation of WIMPs even in the presence of insidious backgrounds. A measurement of the distribution of arrival direction of WIMPs can also discriminate between Galactic Dark Matter halo models. In this article, I will discuss the motivation for directional detectors and review the experimental techniques used by the various experiments. I will then describe one of them, the DMTPC detector, in more detail.
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@article{arxiv.0811.2764,
title = {Directional detection of Dark Matter},
author = {Gabriella Sciolla},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0811.2764},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
17 pages, 11 postscript figures, mini-review submitted to Modern Physics Letters A (MPLA). Submitted to Modern Physics Letters A (MPLA)