Directional detection of Dark Matter with MIMAC: WIMP identification and track reconstruction

C. Grignon (1); D. Santos (1) ((1) LPSC Grenoble); F. Mayet (1); J. Billard (1)

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Directional detection of Dark Matter with MIMAC: WIMP identification and track reconstruction

J. Billard (1), F. Mayet (1), C. Grignon (1), D. Santos (1) ((1) LPSC Grenoble)

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Submitted 14 Jan 2011

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The authors' main claim Taking advantage on these characteristic features and even in the presence of a sizeable background, we show for the first time the possibility to constrain the WIMP properties, both from particle and galactic halo physics, leading to an identification of non-baryonic Dark Matter.

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CitationC. Grignon (1), D. Santos (1) ((1) LPSC Grenoble), F. Mayet (1), J. Billard (1). "Directional detection of Dark Matter with MIMAC: WIMP identification and track reconstruction." arXiv:1101.2750 (2011). https://pith.science/paper/5JHXG6KE

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Directional detection is a promising Dark Matter search strategy. Indeed, WIMP-induced recoils present a direction dependence toward the Cygnus constellation, while background-induced recoils exhibit an isotropic distribution in the galactic rest frame. Taking advantage on these characteristic features and even in the presence of a sizeable background, we show for the first time the possibility to constrain the WIMP properties, both from particle and galactic halo physics, leading to an identification of non-baryonic Dark Matter. However, such results need highly accurate track reconstruction which should be reachable by the MIMAC detector using a dedicated readout combined with a likelihood analysis of recoiling nuclei.

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s1	Indeed, WIMP-induced recoils present a direction dependence toward the Cygnus constellation, while background-induced recoils exhibit an isotropic distribution in the galactic rest frame.	background 1.00	0.08	0.06	asserted 1.00
s2	Taking advantage on these characteristic features and even in the presence of a sizeable background, we show for the first time the possibility to constrain the WIMP properties, both from particle and galactic halo physics, leading to an identification of non-baryonic Dark Matter.	contribution 0.61	0.84	0.84	asserted 0.63
s3	However, such results need highly accurate track reconstruction which should be reachable by the MIMAC detector using a dedicated readout combined with a likelihood analysis of recoiling nuclei.	method 0.63	0.22	0.09	hedged possibility 0.97

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Directional detection is a promising Dark Matter search strategy. Indeed, WIMP-induced recoils present a direction dependence toward the Cygnus constellation, while background-induced recoils exhibit an isotropic distribution in the galactic rest frame. Taking advantage on these characteristic features and even in the presence of a sizeable background, we show for the first time the possibility to constrain the WIMP properties, both from particle and galactic halo physics, leading to an identification of non-baryonic Dark Matter. However, such results need highly accurate track reconstruction which should be reachable by the MIMAC detector using a dedicated readout combined with a likelihood analysis of recoiling nuclei.

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Using a Markov chain Monte Carlo analysis of recoil events, we show for the first time the possibility to constrain the unknown WIMP parameters, both from particle physics (mass and cross section) and Galactic halo (velocity dispersion along the three axis), leading to an identification of non-baryonic dark matter.

Markov Chain Monte Carlo analysis to constrain Dark Matter properties with directional detection · 0.93

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This MCMC analysis is based on the Metropolis-Hastings algorithm, using chain subsampling according to the burn-in and correlation lengths to deal only with independent samples [ref] .

Markov Chain Monte Carlo analysis to constrain Dark Matter properties with directional detection · Directional framework · 0.98

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Several project of directional detectors are being developed [ref] and some of them are already taking data [ref] .

MIMAC : A micro-tpc matrix for directional detection of dark matter · Introduction · 0.96

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