2009/11/30 by J. Billard, F. Mayet, J. F. Macías–Pérez +2 · 1 citation
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Astronomy #Astrophysics #Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena #CCD and CMOS Imaging Sensors #Computer science #Cosmology #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #Dark energy #Dark matter #Detection theory #Detector #Galactic plane #Galaxy #Optics #Physics #SIGNAL (programming language) #Scalar field dark matter #WIMP #Weakly interacting massive particles #astro-ph.CO
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2010.06.024
published as Phys.Lett.B691:156-162,2010 · 20 pages, 5 figures Final version to appear in Phys. Lett. B
openalex publication_date 2010/06/21 · arxiv created 2010/06/28 · arxiv updated 2014/11/20 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
Directional detection of Galactic Dark Matter is a promising search strategy for discriminating genuine WIMP events from background ones. Technical progress on gaseous detectors and read-outs has permitted the design and construction of competitive experiments. However, to take full advantage of this powerful detection method, one need to be able to extract information from an observed recoil map to identify a WIMP signal. We present a comprehensive formalism, using a map-based likelihood method allowing to recover the main incoming direction of the signal and its significance, thus proving its galactic origin. This is a blind analysis intended to be used on any directional data. Constraints are deduced in the (σn, mχ) plane and systematic studies are presented in order to show that, using this analysis tool, unambiguous dark matter detection can be achieved on a large range of exposures and background levels.