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The Directional Dark Matter Detector (D3)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2012

F. Mayet ,
D. Santos ,
S.E. Vahsen ,
H. Feng ,
M. Garcia-Sciveres ,
I. Jaegle ,
J. Kadyk ,
Y. Nguyen ,
M. Rosen  and
S. Ross
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S.E. Vahsen
Affiliation:
University of Hawaii, 2505 Correa Road, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
H. Feng
Affiliation:
University of Hawaii, 2505 Correa Road, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
M. Garcia-Sciveres
Affiliation:
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
I. Jaegle
Affiliation:
University of Hawaii, 2505 Correa Road, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
J. Kadyk
Affiliation:
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
Y. Nguyen
Affiliation:
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
M. Rosen
Affiliation:
University of Hawaii, 2505 Correa Road, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
S. Ross
Affiliation:
University of Hawaii, 2505 Correa Road, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
T. Thorpe
Affiliation:
University of Hawaii, 2505 Correa Road, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
J. Yamaoka
Affiliation:
University of Hawaii, 2505 Correa Road, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
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Abstract

Gas-filled Time Projection Chambers (TPCs) with Gas Electron Multipliers (GEMs) and pixels appear suitable for direction-sensitive WIMP dark matter searches. We present the background and motivation for our work on this technology, past and ongoing prototype work, and a development path towards an affordable, 1-m3-scale directional dark matter detector, D3. Such a detector may be particularly suitable for low-mass WIMP searches, and perhaps sufficiently sensitive to clearly determine whether the signals seen by DAMA, CoGeNT, and CRESST-II are due to low-mass WIMPs or background.

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European Astronomical Society Publications Series , Volume 53: CYGNUS 2011: Third International Conference on Directional Detection of Dark Matter , 2012 , pp. 43 - 50
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© EAS, EDP Sciences 2012

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