Discovery potential for directional dark matter detection with nuclear emulsions

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Güler, Ali Murat

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Direct Dark Matter searches are nowadays one of the most exciting research topics. Several Experimental efforts are concentrated on the development, construction, and operation of detectors looking for the scattering of target nuclei with Weakly Interactive Massive Particles (WIMPs). In this field a new frontier can be opened by directional detectors able to reconstruct the direction of the WIMP-recoiled nucleus thus allowing to extend dark matter searches beyond the neutrino floor. Exploiting directionality would also give a proof of the galactic origin of dark matter making it possible to have a clear and unambiguous signal to background separation. The angular distribution of WIPM-scattered nuclei is indeed expected to be peaked in the direction of the motion of the Solar System in the Galaxy, i.e. toward the Cygnus constellation, while the background distribution is expected to be isotropic. Current directional experiments are based on the use of gas TPC whose sensitivity is limited by the small achievable detector mass. In this paper we show the potentiality in terms of exclusion limit of a directional experiment based on the use of a solid target made by newly developed nuclear emulsions and read-out systems reaching sub-micrometric resolution.

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General Physics and Astronomy

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/41502

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https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/869/1/012048

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A. M. Güler, “Discovery potential for directional dark matter detection with nuclear emulsions,” 2017, vol. 869, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/41502.