Directional recoil detection

SE Vahsen, CAJ O'Hare… - Annual Review of Nuclear …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Searches for dark matter–induced recoils have made impressive advances in the last few
years. Yet the field is confronted by several outstanding problems. First, the inevitable …

A review of the discovery reach of directional Dark Matter detection

F Mayet, AM Green, JBR Battat, J Billard, N Bozorgnia… - Physics Reports, 2016 - Elsevier
Cosmological observations indicate that most of the matter in the Universe is Dark Matter.
Dark Matter in the form of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) can be detected …

Refinement of the standard halo model for dark matter searches in light of the Gaia Sausage

NW Evans, CAJ O'Hare, C McCabe - Physical Review D, 2019 - APS
Predicting signals in experiments to directly detect dark matter (DM) requires a form for the
local DM velocity distribution. Hitherto, the standard halo model (SHM), in which velocities …

Velocity substructure from Gaia and direct searches for dark matter

CAJ O'Hare, NW Evans, C McCabe, GC Myeong… - Physical Review D, 2020 - APS
Data from the Gaia satellite show that the solar neighborhood of the Milky Way's stellar halo
is imprinted with substructure from several accretion events. Evidence of these events is …

Dark matter hurricane: Measuring the S1 stream with dark matter detectors

CAJ O'Hare, C McCabe, NW Evans, GC Myeong… - Physical Review D, 2018 - APS
The recently discovered S1 stream passes through the Solar neighborhood on a low
inclination, counterrotating orbit. The progenitor of S1 is a dwarf galaxy with a total mass …

Directional dark matter detection beyond the neutrino bound

P Grothaus, M Fairbairn, J Monroe - Physical Review D, 2014 - APS
Coherent scattering of solar, atmospheric, and diffuse supernovae neutrinos creates an
irreducible background for direct dark matter experiments with sensitivities to WIMP-nucleon …

Readout technologies for directional WIMP Dark Matter detection

JBR Battat, IG Irastorza, A Aleksandrov, T Asada… - Physics Reports, 2016 - Elsevier
The measurement of the direction of WIMP-induced nuclear recoils is a compelling but
technologically challenging strategy to provide an unambiguous signature of the detection of …

Directional detection of dark matter using solid-state quantum sensing

R Ebadi, MC Marshall, DF Phillips, J Cremer… - AVS Quantum …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Next-generation dark matter (DM) detectors searching for weakly interacting massive
particles (WIMPs) will be sensitive to coherent scattering from solar neutrinos, demanding an …

Assessing the discovery potential of directional detection of dark matter

J Billard, F Mayet, D Santos - Physical Review D—Particles, Fields, Gravitation …, 2012 - APS
There is a worldwide effort toward the development of a large time projection chamber
devoted to directional dark matter detection. All current projects are being designed to fulfill …

Recoil imaging for directional detection of dark matter, neutrinos, and physics beyond the Standard Model

CAJ O'Hare, D Loomba, K Altenmüller… - Proceedings of the US …, 2022 - cris.fbk.eu
Recoil imaging entails the detection of spatially resolved ionization tracks generated by
particle interactions. This is a highly sought-after capability in many classes of detector, with …