2011/11/07 by D. Santos, Santos, D., J. Billard +29
Physics and Astronomy · #Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO) #FOS: Physical sciences #Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) #astro-ph.CO #astro-ph.IM
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1111.1566
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Directional Detection of Dark Matter (CYGNUS 2011), Aussois- France- June 2011
arxiv created 2011/11/07 · arxiv updated 2011/11/08
Directional detection of non-baryonic DarkMatter is a promising search strategy for discriminating WIMP events from background ones. This strategy requires both a measurement of the recoil energy down to a few keV and 3D reconstruction of tracks down to a few mm. The MIMAC project, based on a micro-TPC matrix, filled with CF4 and CHF3 is being developed. The first results of a chamber prototype of this matrix, on low energy nuclear recoils (1H and 19F) obtained with mono-energetic neutron fields are presented. The discovery potential of this search strategy is illustrated by a realistic case accessible to MIMAC.