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Data from the DRIFT-IIa directional dark matter experiment are presented, collected during a near continuous 6 month running period. A detailed calibration analysis comparing data from gamma-ray, x-ray and neutron sources to a GEANT4 Monte…

Directional detection of galactic Dark Matter is a promising search strategy for discriminating genuine WIMP events from background ones. However, to take full advantage of this powerful detection method, one need to be able to extract…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-15 J. Billard , F. Mayet , J. F. Macias-Perez , D. Santos , C. Grignon , O. Guillaudin

The WIMP proposed here yields the observed abundance of dark matter, and is consistent with the current limits from direct detection, indirect detection, and collider experiments, if its mass is $\sim 72$ GeV/$c^2$. It is also consistent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-02 Reagan Thornberry , Maxwell Throm , Gabriel Frohaug , John Killough , Dylan Blend , Michael Erickson , Brian Sun , Brett Bays , Roland E. Allen

We propose a method using solid state detectors with directional sensitivity to dark matter interactions to detect low-mass Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) originating from galactic sources. In spite of a large body of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-03-21 Fedja Kadribasic , Nader Mirabolfathi , Kai Nordlund , Andrea E. Sand , E. Holmström , Flyura Djurabekova

In this study, the sensitivity of future lepton colliders to WIMP dark matter is evaluated assuming WIMP pair production accompanied by a photon from initial state radiation, through which the process can be identified. A full detector…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-05-06 Moritz Habermehl , Mikael Berggren , Jenny List

Directional detection can provide unambiguous observation of Dark Matter interactions even in presence of insidious backgrounds. The DM-TPC collaboration is developing a detector with the goal of measuring the direction and sense of nuclear…

We developed a three-dimensional gaseous tracking device and performed a direction-sensitive dark matter search in a surface laboratory. By using 150 Torr carbon-tetrafluoride (CF_4 gas), we obtained a sky map drawn with the recoil…

The detection of Dark Matter (DM) remains a significant challenge in particle physics. This study exploits advanced machine learning models to improve detection capabilities of liquid xenon time projection chamber experiments, utilizing…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-17 Daniel E. Lopez-Fogliani , Andres D. Perez , Roberto Ruiz de Austri

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 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

We report results from a reanalysis of data from the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS II) experiment at the Soudan Underground Laboratory. Data taken between October 2006 and September 2008 using eight germanium detectors are reanalyzed…

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

We perform the first high-throughput search and evaluation of materials that can serve as excellent low-mass dark matter detectors. Using properties of close to one thousand materials from the Materials Project database, we project the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-26 Sinéad M. Griffin , Yonit Hochberg , Benjamin V. Lehmann , Rotem Ovadia , Kristin A. Persson , Bethany A. Suter , Ruo Xi Yang , Wayne Zhao

Measurement of the direction of the elastic nuclear recoil track and ionization charge distribution along it, gives unique possibility for unambiguous detection of the dark matter WIMP particle. Within current radiation detection…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-08-23 N. J. C. Spooner , P. Majewski

The DRIFT collaboration utilizes low pressure gaseous detectors to search for WIMP dark matter with directional signatures. A 252Cf neutron source was placed on each of the principal axes of a DRIFT detector in order to test its ability to…

We study the dependence of the exposure required to directly detect a WIMP directional recoil signal on the capabilities of a directional detector. Specifically we consider variations in the nuclear recoil energy threshold, the background…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Anne M. Green , Ben Morgan

Directional detection of dark matter is the next generation experiment, which is expected to have better back ground rejection efficiency than conventional direct search. Another intriguing possibility of the experiment by means of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-12-16 Keiko I. Nagao

The Dark Matter Time Projection Chamber (DMTPC) collaboration is developing low-pressure gas TPC detectors for measuring WIMP-nucleon interactions. Optical readout with CCD cameras allows for the detection for the daily modulation in the…

Next-generation dark matter (DM) detectors searching for weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) will be sensitive to coherent scattering from solar neutrinos, demanding an efficient background-signal discrimination tool. Directional…

Low-pressure gas Time Projection Chambers being developed for directional dark matter searches offer a technology with strong particle identification capability combined with the potential to produce a definitive detection of Galactic…