2013/06/18 by Q. Riffard, J. Billard, Riffard, Q. +30
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paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1306.4173
Proceedings of the 48th Rencontres de Moriond: Very High Energy Phenomena in the Universe, 9-16 March 2013, La Thuile, Italy
arxiv created 2013/06/18 · openalex publication_date 2013/06/18 · arxiv updated 2013/06/19 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Directional detection is a promising direct Dark Matter (DM) search strategy. The angular distribution of the nuclear recoil tracks from WIMP events should present an anisotropy in galactic coordinates. This strategy requires both a measurement of the recoil energy with a threshold of about 5 keV and 3D recoil tracks down to few millimeters. The MIMAC project, based on a \textmu-TPC matrix, with CF4 and CHF3, is being developed. In June 2012, a bi-chamber prototype was installed at the LSM (Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane). A preliminary analysis of the first four months data taking allowed, for the first time, the observation of recoils from the \mathrm222Rn progeny.