Directional recoil rates for WIMP direct detection

Details Directional recoil rates for WIMP direct detection Directional recoil rates for WIMP direct detection

2007-12-02

arxiv.org/abs/0712.0053v2

Phys.Rev.D77:043532,2008

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

39 pages, 15 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.77.043532

New techniques for the laboratory direct detection of dark matter weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) are sensitive to the recoil direction of the struck nuclei. We compute and compare the directional recoil rates ${dR}/{d\cos\theta}$ (where $\theta$ is the angle measured from a reference direction in the sky) for several WIMP velocity distributions including the standard dark halo and anisotropic models such as Sikivie's late-infall halo model and logarithmic-ellipsoidal models. Since some detectors may be unable to distinguish the beginning of the recoil track from its end (lack of head-tail discrimination), we introduce a ``folded'' directional recoil rate ${dR}/{d|\cos\theta|}$, where $|\cos\theta|$ does not distinguish the head from the tail of the track. We compute the CS$_2$ and CF$_4$ exposures required to distinguish a signal from an isotropic background noise, and find that ${dR}/{d|\cos\theta|}$ is effective for the standard dark halo and some but not all anisotropic models.

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