The DRIFT Project: Searching for WIMPS with a Directional Detector

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1999-05-06

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9905074v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

5 pages, 3 figures. Presented at Dark 98, Heidelberg, July 1998, and to appear in conference proceedings

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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.

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