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Directional detection of Galactic Dark Matter is a promising search strategy for discriminating genuine WIMP events from background ones. Technical progress on gaseous detectors and read-outs has permitted the design and construction of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 J. Billard , F. Mayet , J. F. Macias-Perez , D. Santos

Directional detection is a promising Dark Matter search strategy. Taking advantage on the rotation of the Solar system around the galactic center through the Dark Matter halo, it allows to show a direction dependence of WIMP events that may…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-15 F. Mayet , J. Billard , D. Santos

Directional detection of galactic Dark Matter is a promising search strategy for discriminating geniune WIMP events from background ones. We present technical progress on gaseous detectors as well as recent phenomenological studies,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-19 F. Mayet , J. Billard , G. Bernard , G. Bosson , O. Bourrion , C. Grignon , O. Guillaudin , C. Koumeir , J. P. Richer , D. Santos , P. Colas , E. Ferer , I. Giomataris , A. Allaoua , L. Lebreton

Directional detection is a promising search strategy to discover galactic Dark Matter. Taking advantage on the rotation of the Solar system around the Galactic center through the Dark Matter halo, it allows to show a direction dependence of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-09-29 J. Billard , F. Mayet , D. Santos

Directional detection is a promising Dark Matter search strategy. Taking advantage on the rotation of the Solar system around the galactic center through the Dark Matter halo, it allows to show a direction dependence of WIMP events. It…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-03-05 F. Mayet , J. Billard , D. Santos

Directional detection of galactic Dark Matter offers a unique opportunity to identify Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP) events as such. Depending on the unknown WIMP-nucleon cross section, directional detection may be used to :…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-12-30 F. Mayet , J. Billard

Directional detection is a promising search strategy to discover galactic Dark Matter. We present a Bayesian analysis framework dedicated to Dark Matter phenomenology using directional detection. The interest of directional detection as a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 J. Billard , F. Mayet , D. Santos

Directional detection is a promising Dark Matter search strategy. Indeed, WIMP-induced recoils present a direction dependence toward the Cygnus constellation, while background-induced recoils exhibit an isotropic distribution in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 J. Billard , F. Mayet , C. Grignon , D. Santos

Cosmological observations indicate that most of the matter in the Universe is Dark Matter. Dark Matter in the form of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) can be detected directly, via its elastic scattering off target nuclei. Most…

Among the many experimental techniques available, those providing directional information have the potential of yielding an unambiguous observation of WIMPs even in the presence of insidious backgrounds. A measurement of the distribution of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Gabriella Sciolla

Direct detection of dark matter with directional sensitivity is a promising concept for improving the search for weakly interacting massive particles. With information on the direction of WIMP induced nuclear recoils one has access to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-10-15 Ciaran A. J. O'Hare

Dark Matter detectors with directional sensitivity have the potential of yielding an unambiguous positive observation of WIMPs as well as discriminating between galactic Dark Matter halo models. In this article, we introduce the motivation…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Gabriella Sciolla , C. Jeff Martoff

Directional detection is a promising search strategy to discover galactic Dark Matter. We present a Bayesian analysis framework dedicated to data from upcoming directional detectors. The interest of directional detection as a powerful tool…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 J. Billard , F. Mayet , D. Santos

Directional detection is a promising direct Dark Matter (DM) search strategy. The angular distribution of the nuclear recoil tracks from WIMP events should present an anisotropy in galactic coordinates. This strategy requires both a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-19 Q. Riffard , J. Billard , G. Bosson , O. Bourrion , O. Guillaudin , J. Lamblin , F. Mayet , J. -F. Muraz , J. -P. Richer , D. Santos , L. Lebreton , D. Maire , J. Busto , J. Brunner , D. Fouchez

Directional detection is a promising search strategy to discover galactic Dark Matter. Taking advantage on the rotation of the Solar system around the Galactic center through the Dark Matter halo, it allows to show a direction dependence of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-09-14 J. Billard , F. Mayet , D. Santos

The measurement of the direction of WIMP-induced nuclear recoils is a compelling but technologically challenging strategy to provide an unambiguous signature of the detection of Galactic dark matter. Most directional detectors aim to…

Directional detection of non-baryonic Dark Matter is a promising search strategy for discriminating genuine WIMP events from background ones. However, carrying out such a strategy requires both a precise measurement of the energy down to a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-09-20 C. Grignon , J. Billard , G. Bosson , O. Bourrion , O. Guillaudin , F. Mayet , J. P. Richer , D. Santos , E. Ferrer , I. Giomataris , J. P. Mols

Directional detection of WIMPs, in which the energies and directions of the recoiling nuclei are measured, currently presents the only prospect for probing the local velocity distribution of Galactic dark matter. We investigate the extent…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-11 Ciaran A. J. O'Hare , Anne M. Green

Directional detection is a promising dark matter search strategy. Indeed, weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP)-induced recoils would present a direction dependence toward the Cygnus constellation, while background-induced recoils…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-22 J. Billard , F. Mayet , D. Santos
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