The DMTPC detector is a low-pressure CF4 TPC with optical readout for directional detection of Dark Matter. The combination of the energy and directional tracking information allows for an efficient suppression of all backgrounds. The choice of gas (CF4) makes this detector particularly sensitive to spin-dependent interactions.
@article{arxiv.0903.3895,
title = {The DMTPC project},
author = {G. Sciolla and J. Battat and T. Caldwell and D. Dujmic and P. Fisher and S. Henderson and R. Lanza and A. Lee and J. Lopez and A. Kaboth and G. Kohse and J. Monroe and T. Sahin and G. Sciolla and R. Yamamoto and H. Yegoryan and S. Ahlen and K. Otis and H. Tomita and A. Dushkin and H. Wellenstein},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0903.3895},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
8 pages, to be published by Journal of Physics: Conference Series in the proceedings of The Fourth International Symposium on Large TPCs for Low Energy Rare Event Detection