Directional detection of non-baryonic Dark Matter is a promising search strategy for discriminating WIMP events from background. However, this strategy requires both a precise measurement of the energy down to a few keV and 3D reconstruction of tracks down to a few mm. To achieve this goal, the MIMAC project has been developed. It is based on a gaseous micro-TPC matrix, filled with CF4 and CHF3. The first results on low energy nuclear recoils (H, F) obtained with a low mono-energetic neutron field are presented. The discovery potential of this search strategy is discussed and illustrated by a realistic case accessible to MIMAC.
@article{arxiv.1102.3265,
title = {MIMAC : A micro-tpc matrix for directional detection of dark matter},
author = {D. Santos and J. Billard and G. Bosson and J. L. Bouly and O. Bourrion and Ch. Fourel and C. Grignon and O. Guillaudin and F. Mayet and J. P. Richer and A. Delbart and E. Ferrer and I. Giomataris and F. J. Iguaz and J. P. Mols and C. Golabek and L. Lebreton},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1102.3265},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
6 pages, Proc. of the fifth international symposium on large TPCs for low energy rare event detection, Paris, France, Dec. 2010. To appear in Journal of Physics