The Directional Dark Matter Detector
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
2015-05-30 v1
Abstract
Gas-filled Time Projection Chambers (TPCs) with Gas Electron Multipliers (GEMs) and pixels appear suitable for direction-sensitive WIMP dark matter searches. We present the background and motivation for our work on this technology, past and ongoing prototype work, and a development path towards an affordable, 1--scale directional dark matter detector, \dcube. Such a detector may be particularly suitable for low-mass WIMP searches, and perhaps sufficiently sensitive to clearly determine whether the signals seen by DAMA, CoGeNT, and CRESST-II are due to low-mass WIMPs or background.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1110.3401,
title = {The Directional Dark Matter Detector},
author = {S. E. Vahsen and H. Feng and M. Garcia-Sciveres and I. Jaegle and J. Kadyk and Y. Nguyen and M. Rosen and S. Ross and T. Thorpe and J. Yamaoka},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1110.3401},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
Proceedings of the 3rd International conference on Directional Detection of Dark Matter (CYGNUS 2011), Aussois, France, 8-10 June 2011