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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Vahsen, S.E.
• Feng, H.
• Garcia-Sciveres, M.
• Jaegle, I.
• Kadyk, J.
• Nguyen, Y.
• Rosen, M.
• Ross, S.
• Thorpe, T.
• Yamaoka, J.
• Mayet, F.
• Santos, D.

Titel

The Directional Dark Matter Detector (D3)

Ist Teil von

• EAS publications series, 2012, Vol.53, p.43-50

Ort / Verlag

Les Ulis: EDP Sciences

Erscheinungsjahr

2012

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Gas-filled Time Projection Chambers (TPCs) with Gas Electron Multipliers (GEMs) and pixels appear suitable for direction-sensitive WIMP dark matter searches. We present the background and motivation for our work on this technology, past and ongoing prototype work, and a development path towards an affordable, 1-m3-scale directional dark matter detector, D3. Such a detector may be particularly suitable for low-mass WIMP searches, and perhaps sufficiently sensitive to clearly determine whether the signals seen by DAMA, CoGeNT, and CRESST-II are due to low-mass WIMPs or background.