Year: 2005
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: A direction sensitive dark matter detector using organic crystals is being developed. It exploits the anisotropic scintillation efficiency of organic crystals with respect to the direction of nuclear recoils relative to crystallographic axes. A variation of about 7% was observed in the scintillation efficiency of carbon recoils in a stilbene crystal for recoil energies of 30 keV to 1 MeV. We have performed a pilot experiment at Kamioka to prove the feasibility of this method.
Authors: H. SEKIYA, M. MINOWA, Y. SHIMIZU, W. SUGANUMA, Y. INOUE
Institutions: Kyoto University, The University of Tokyo
Language: English
Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W3102653157