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arxiv: astro-ph/9711039 · v1 · pith:UTTY6OLQnew · submitted 1997-11-05 · 🌌 astro-ph

Probing the structure of the cold dark matter halo with ancient mica

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Mica can store (for >1 Gy) etchable tracks caused by atoms recoiling from WIMPs. Ancient mica is a directional detector despite the complex motions it makes with respect to the WIMP "wind". We can exploit the properties of directionality and long integration time to probe for structure in the dark matter halo of our galaxy. We compute a sample of possible signals in mica for a plausible model of halo structure.

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