NEWS : a new spherical gas detector for very low mass WIMP detection
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
2014-01-31 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment
Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract
The main characteristics of a new concept of spherical gaseous detectors, with some details on its operation are first given. The very low energy threshold of such detector has led to investigations of its potential performance for dark matter particle searches, in particular low mass WIMP's : original methods for energy and fiducial volume calibration and background rejection are described and preliminary results obtained with a low radioactivity prototype operated in Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane ("Frejus" lab) are presented. Typical expected sensitivities in cross section for low mass WIMP's are also shown, and other applications briefly discussed.
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@article{arxiv.1401.7902,
title = {NEWS : a new spherical gas detector for very low mass WIMP detection},
author = {G. Gerbier and I. Giomataris and P. Magnier and A. Dastgheibi and M. Gros and D. Jourde and E. Bougamont and X. F. Navick and T. Papaevangelou and J. Galan and J. Derre and I. Savvidis and G. Tsiledakis},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1401.7902},
year = {2014}
}
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6 pages, 8 figures