The DRIFT Project: Searching for WIMPS with a Directional Detector
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
A low pressure time projection chamber for the detection of WIMPs is discussed. Discrimination against Compton electron background in such a device should be very good, and directional information about the recoil atoms would be obtainable. If a full 3-D reconstruction of the recoil tracks can be achieved, Monte Carlo studies indicate that a WIMP signal could be identified with high confidence from as few as 30 detected WIMP-nucleus scattering events.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9905074,
title = {The DRIFT Project: Searching for WIMPS with a Directional Detector},
author = {M. J. Lehner and K. Griest and C. J. Martoff and G. E. Masek and T. Ohnuki and D. Snowden-Ifft and N. J. C. Spooner},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9905074},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
5 pages, 3 figures. Presented at Dark 98, Heidelberg, July 1998, and to appear in conference proceedings