Dark matter direct-detection experiments

TM Undagoitia, L Rauch - Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
In recent decades, several detector technologies have been developed with the quest to
directly detect dark matter interactions and to test one of the most important unsolved …

Indirect and direct search for dark matter

M Klasen, M Pohl, G Sigl - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2015 - Elsevier
The majority of the matter in the universe is still unidentified and under investigation by both
direct and indirect means. Many experiments searching for the recoil of dark-matter particles …

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 …

Matrix element analyses of dark matter scattering and annihilation

J Kumar, D Marfatia - Physical Review D—Particles, Fields, Gravitation, and …, 2013 - APS
We provide a compendium of results at the level of matrix elements for a systematic study of
dark matter scattering and annihilation. We identify interactions that yield spin-dependent …

CYGNUS: Feasibility of a nuclear recoil observatory with directional sensitivity to dark matter and neutrinos

SE Vahsen, CAJ O'Hare, WA Lynch… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
Now that conventional weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter searches are
approaching the neutrino floor, there has been a resurgence of interest in detectors with …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] First background-free limit from a directional dark matter experiment: results from a fully fiducialised DRIFT detector

JBR Battat, J Brack, E Daw, A Dorofeev… - Physics of the Dark …, 2015 - Elsevier
The addition of O 2 to gas mixtures in time projection chambers containing CS 2 has recently
been shown to produce multiple negative ions that travel at slightly different velocities. This …

Directional detection of dark matter with diamond

MC Marshall, MJ Turner, MJH Ku… - Quantum Science …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Searches for weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter will in the near future
be sensitive to solar neutrinos. Directional detection offers a method to reject solar neutrinos …

Direct detection of dark matter debris flows

M Kuhlen, M Lisanti, DN Spergel - Physical Review D—Particles, Fields …, 2012 - APS
Tidal stripping of dark matter from subhalos falling into the Milky Way produces narrow, cold
tidal streams as well as more spatially extended “debris flows” in the form of shells, sheets …

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 …