Status and Prospects of the DMTPC Directional Dark Matter Experiment
The DMTPC directional dark matter detection experiment is a low-pressure CF4 gas time projection chamber, instrumented with charge and scintillation photon readout. This detector design strategy emphasizes reconstruction of WIMPinduced nuclear recoil tracks, in order to determine the direction of in...
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| description | The DMTPC directional dark matter detection experiment is a low-pressure CF4 gas time projection chamber, instrumented with charge and scintillation photon readout. This detector design strategy emphasizes reconstruction of WIMPinduced nuclear recoil tracks, in order to determine the direction of incident dark matter particles. Directional detection has the potential to make the definitive observation of dark matter using the unique angular signature of the dark matter wind, which is distinct from all known backgrounds. This talk will review the experimental technique and current status of DMTPC. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/765992022-09-30T21:02:12Z Status and Prospects of the DMTPC Directional Dark Matter Experiment Monroe, Jocelyn Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics Monroe, Jocelyn The DMTPC directional dark matter detection experiment is a low-pressure CF4 gas time projection chamber, instrumented with charge and scintillation photon readout. This detector design strategy emphasizes reconstruction of WIMPinduced nuclear recoil tracks, in order to determine the direction of incident dark matter particles. Directional detection has the potential to make the definitive observation of dark matter using the unique angular signature of the dark matter wind, which is distinct from all known backgrounds. This talk will review the experimental technique and current status of DMTPC. 2013-01-24T19:06:38Z 2013-01-24T19:06:38Z 2011-07 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/ConferencePaper 978-0-7354-1035-0 0094-243X 1551-7616 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/76599 Monroe, Jocelyn, and DMTPC Collaboration. “Status and Prospects of the DMTPC Directional Dark Matter Experiment.” AIP Conf. Proc. 1441 (2011) 515–517. en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3700603 AIP Conference Proceedings Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ application/pdf American Institute of Physics (AIP) arXiv |
| spellingShingle | Monroe, Jocelyn Status and Prospects of the DMTPC Directional Dark Matter Experiment |
| title | Status and Prospects of the DMTPC Directional Dark Matter Experiment |
| title_full | Status and Prospects of the DMTPC Directional Dark Matter Experiment |
| title_fullStr | Status and Prospects of the DMTPC Directional Dark Matter Experiment |
| title_full_unstemmed | Status and Prospects of the DMTPC Directional Dark Matter Experiment |
| title_short | Status and Prospects of the DMTPC Directional Dark Matter Experiment |
| title_sort | status and prospects of the dmtpc directional dark matter experiment |
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