The case for a directional dark matter detector and the status of current experimental efforts
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
2014-11-20 v1
Abstract
We present the case for a dark matter detector with directional sensitivity. This document was developed at the 2009 CYGNUS workshop on directional dark matter detection, and contains contributions from theorists and experimental groups in the field. We describe the need for a dark matter detector with directional sensitivity; each directional dark matter experiment presents their project's status; and we close with a feasibility study for scaling up to a one ton directional detector, which would cost around $150M.
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@article{arxiv.0911.0323,
title = {The case for a directional dark matter detector and the status of current experimental efforts},
author = {S. Ahlen and N. Afshordi and J. B. R. Battat and J. Billard and N. Bozorgnia and S. Burgos and T. Caldwell and J. M. Carmona and S. Cebrian and P. Colas and T. Dafni and E. Daw and D. Dujmic and A. Dushkin and W. Fedus and E. Ferrer and D. Finkbeiner and P. H. Fisher and J. Forbes and T. Fusayasu and J. Galan and T. Gamble and C. Ghag and I. Giomataris and M. Gold and H. Gomez and M. E. Gomez and P. Gondolo and A. Green and C. Grignon and O. Guillaudin and C. Hagemann and K. Hattori and S. Henderson and N. Higashi and C. Ida and F. J. Iguaz and A. Inglis and I. G. Irastorza and S. Iwaki and A. Kaboth and S. Kabuki and J. Kadyk and N. Kallivayalil and H. Kubo and S. Kurosawa and V. A. Kudryavtsev and T. Lamy and R. Lanza and T. B. Lawson and A. Lee and E. R. Lee and T. Lin and D. Loomba and J. Lopez and G. Luzon and T. Manobu and J. Martoff and F. Mayet and B. Mccluskey and E. Miller and K. Miuchi and J. Monroe and B. Morgan and D. Muna and A. St. J. Murphy and T. Naka and K. Nakamura and M. Nakamura and T. Nakano and G. G. Nicklin and H. Nishimura and K. Niwa and S. M. Paling and J. Parker and A. Petkov and M. Pipe and K. Pushkin and M. Robinson and A. Rodriguez and J. Rodriguez-Quintero and T. Sahin and R. Sanderson and N. Sanghi and D. Santos and O. Sato and T. Sawano and G. Sciolla and H. Sekiya and T. R. Slatyer and D. P. Snowden-Ifft and N. J. C. Spooner and A. Sugiyama and A. Takada and M. Takahashi and A. Takeda and T. Tanimori and K. Taniue and A. Tomas and H. Tomita and K. Tsuchiya and J. Turk and E. Tziaferi and K. Ueno and S. Vahsen and R. Vanderspek and J. Vergados and J. A. Villar and H. Wellenstein and I. Wolfe and R. K. Yamamoto and H. Yegoryan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0911.0323},
year = {2014}
}
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48 pages, 37 figures, whitepaper on direct dark matter detection with directional sensitivity