Technical aspects and dark matter searches
Abstract
A variety of detectors has been proposed for dark matter direct detection, but most of them -- by the fact -- are still at R&D stage. In many cases, it is claimed that the lack of an adequate detectors' radio-purity might be compensated through heavy uses of MonteCarlo simulations, subtractions and handlings of the measured counting rates, in order to claim higher sensitivity (just for a particular scenario). The relevance of a correct evaluation of systematic effects in the use of MonteCarlo simulations at very low energy (which has always been safely discouraged in the field so far) and of multiple subtractions and handling procedures applied to the measured counting rate is shortly addressed here at some extent. Many other aspects would also deserve suitably deep investigations.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0912.4200,
title = {Technical aspects and dark matter searches},
author = {R. Bernabei and P. Belli and F. Cappella and R. Cerulli and C. J. Dai and A. d'Angelo and H. L. He and A. Incicchitti and H. H. Kuang and X. H. Ma and F. Montecchia and F. Nozzoli and D. Prosperi and X. D. Sheng and Z. P. Ye},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0912.4200},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
Proceedings of TAUP2009, talk presented by F.Nozzoli