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Abstract
A low pressure time projection chamber for the detection of WIMPs is discussed. Discrimination against Compton electron background in such a device should be very good, and directional information about the recoil atoms would be obtainable. If a full 3-D reconstruction of the recoil tracks can be achieved, Monte Carlo studies indicate that a WIMP signal could be identified with high confidence from as few as 30 detected WIMP-nucleus scattering events.
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| Item Type: | Proceedings Paper |
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| Keywords: | astro-ph; astro-ph; hep-ph |
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| Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
| Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Science (Sheffield) > Department of Physics and Astronomy (Sheffield) |
| Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Mar 2017 14:00 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Dec 2022 13:34 |
| Status: | Published |
| Publisher: | Institute of Physics Pub |
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| Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:106989 |
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