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The DRIFT Project: Searching for WIMPS with a Directional Detector

Year: 1999

Type: conference-paper

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.

Source: White Rose Research Online (University of Leeds, The University of Sheffield, University of York)

DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9905074

Authors: Lehner, M. J., Griest, K., Martoff, C. J., Masek, G. E., Ohnuki, T., Snowden-Ifft, D., Spooner, N. J. C.

Institutions: University of Sheffield, University of California San Diego, Temple University, Occidental College

Language: English

Topic: Particle Detector Development and Performance

Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics

Field: Physics and Astronomy

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W1584872244

FWCI: 2.979

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