The case for a directional dark matter detector and the status of current experimental efforts

Abstract

We present the case for a dark matter detector with directional sensitivity. This document was developed at the 2009 CYGNUS workshop on directional dark matter detection, and contains contributions from theorists and experimental groups in the field. We describe the need for a dark matter detector with directional sensitivity; each directional dark matter experiment presents their project's status; and we close with a feasibility study for scaling up to a one ton directional detector, which would cost around $150M.

48 pages, 37 figures, whitepaper on direct dark matter detection with directional sensitivity

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• Observation of an anomalous positron abundance in the cosmic radiation
• First results from DAMA/LIBRA and the combined results with DAMA/NaI
• Measurement of the Cosmic Ray e+ plus e- spectrum from 20 GeV to 1 TeV with the Fermi Large Area Telescope
• Optimizing WIMP directional detectors
• The Micromegas detector of the CAST experiment
• Direction-sensitive dark matter search results in a surface laboratory
• First Results from the DRIFT-IIa Dark Matter Detector
• Energy resolution of alpha particles in a microbulk Micromegas detector at high pressure Argon and Xenon mixtures
• A Measurement of Photon Production in Electron Avalanches in CF4
• First measurement of the Head-Tail directional nuclear recoil signature at energies relevant to WIMP dark matter searches
• Charge amplification concepts for direction-sensitive dark matter detectors
• Measurements of neutrons produced by high-energy muons at the Boulby Underground Laboratory
• Measurement of the Range Component Directional Signature in a DRIFT-II Detector using 252Cf Neutrons
• Direct Dark Matter Searches
• Bragg-like curve for dark matter searches; binary gases
• Dark Matter and LHC: What is the Connection?
• First measurement of low intensity fast neutron background from rock at the Boulby Underground Laboratory
• Track Reconstruction and Performance of DRIFT Directional Dark Matter Detectors using Alpha Particles
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• Complementarity of dark matter detectors in light of the neutrino background
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• Search for composite dark matter with optically levitated sensors
• Astrophysical uncertainties on direct detection experiments
• Readout technologies for directional WIMP Dark Matter detection
• Direct Detection of Dark Matter Debris Flows
• Directional Dark Matter Detection Beyond the Neutrino Bound
• First Dark Matter Search Results from a Surface Run of the 10-L DMTPC Directional Dark Matter Detector
• Directional detection as a strategy to discover Galactic Dark Matter
• Assessing the discovery potential of directional detection of Dark Matter
• Dependence of direct detection signals on the WIMP velocity distribution
• Markov Chain Monte Carlo analysis to constrain Dark Matter properties with directional detection
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• Low Threshold Results and Limits from the DRIFT Directional Dark Matter Detector
• Direct Detection of Classically Undetectable Dark Matter through Quantum Decoherence
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• Directional detection of dark matter in universal bound states
• Solar Atmospheric Neutrinos and the Sensitivity Floor for Solar Dark Matter Annihilation Searches
• Introduction to dark matter experiments
• Exclusion limits from data of directional Dark Matter detectors
• The median recoil direction as a WIMP directional detection signal
• Directional detection of dark matter streams
• Development of a front end ASIC for Dark Matter directional detection with MIMAC
• Dark matter directional detection in non-relativistic effective theories
• Ring-like features in directional dark matter detection
• Quenching factor measurement in low pressure gas detector for directional dark matter search
• Probing the Local Velocity Distribution of WIMP Dark Matter with Directional Detectors
• Streams Going Notts: The tidal debris finder comparison project
• Measurement of the directional sensitivity of DMTPC detectors
• TREX-DM: a low-background Micromegas-based TPC for low-mass WIMP detection
• Exploring the hidden interior of the Earth with directional neutrino measurements
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• 3-D Tracking of Nuclear Recoils in a Miniature Time Projection Chamber
• Probing neutralino dark matter in the MSSM & the NMSSM with directional detection
• Reconstructing the three-dimensional local dark matter velocity distribution
• Disentangling Dark Matter Dynamics with Directional Detection
• Data acquisition electronics and reconstruction software for directional detection of Dark Matter with MIMAC
• Time-integrated directional detection of dark matter
• Anisotropic Dark Matter Stars
• Magnetic Inelastic Dark Matter: Directional Signals Without a Directional Detector
• First measurement of nuclear recoil head-tail sense in a fiducialised WIMP dark matter detector
• Dark Matter Searches with Levitated Sensors
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• Reducing DRIFT Backgrounds with a Submicron Aluminized-Mylar Cathode
• Aberration features in directional dark matter detection
• Background Rejection in the DMTPC Dark Matter Search Using Charge Signals
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• Compact, directional neutron detectors capable of high-resolution nuclear recoil imaging
• Low energy electron/recoil discrimination for directional Dark Matter detection
• MIMAC low energy electron-recoil discrimination measured with fast neutrons
• Directional Dependence and Diurnal Modulation in Dark Matter Detectors
• On Diurnal and Annual Variations of Directional Detection Rates of Dark Matter
• Long-term study of backgrounds in the DRIFT-II directional dark matter experiment
• Neutrino and dark matter in a gauged $U(1{)}_R$ symmetry
• Dark Matter in 3D
• Graphene-based detectors for directional dark matter detection
• Data acquisition electronics and reconstruction software for real time 3D track reconstruction within the MIMAC project
• Development of a low-$\alpha$-emitting $\mu$-PIC as a readout device for direction-sensitive dark matter detectors
• Harmonics in the Dark-Matter Sky: Directional Detection in the Fourier-Bessel Basis
• MIMAC: A micro-tpc matrix for dark matter directional detection
• Sensing microscopic directional noise baths with an optically cooled and levitated nanoparticle
• Comparing readout strategies to directly detect dark matter
• Neutrino astronomy as a probe of physics beyond the Standard Model: decay of sub-MeV $B$-$L$ gauge boson dark matter
• First background-free limit from a directional dark matter experiment: results from a fully fiducialised DRIFT detector
• In situ measurement of the electron drift velocity for upcoming directional Dark Matter detectors
• Directional detection of Dark Matter with MIMAC: WIMP identification and track reconstruction
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• Implications of theta_13 on Fritzsch-like lepton mass matrices
• New Concept for Electron Beam-Dump Experiment Utilizing Directional WIMP Detector
• Simulations of the 3-Dimensional Velocity Distribution of Halo Weakly Interacting Massive Particles for Directional Dark Matter Detection Experiments
• A μ-TPC detector for the characterization of low energy neutron fields
• Dark Matter Detection with Polarized Detectors
• The Diurnal Variation of the Wimp Detection Event Rates in Directional Experiments
• Particle detection and tracking with DNA
• Ultra-fine dark matter structure in the Solar neighbourhood
• Development and validation of a 64 channel front end ASIC for 3D directional detection for MIMAC
• Simulation of the Directional Dark Matter Detector (D3) and Directional Neutron Observer (DiNO)
• Understanding Current Signals Induced by Drifting Electrons
• A review on the discovery reach of Dark Matter directional detection
• Dedicated front-end and readout electronics developments for real time 3D directional detection of dark matter with MIMAC
• Interactions of exotic particles with ordinary matter
• Discrimination of anisotropy in dark matter velocity distribution with directional detectors
• Gif Lectures on direct detection of Dark Matter
• Electron recombination in low-energy nuclear recoils tracks in liquid argon
• The effect of hydrodynamical simulation inspired dark matter velocity profile on directional detection of dark matter
• First 3D vector tracking of helium recoils for fast neutron measurements at SuperKEKB
• Demonstration of ThGEM-Multiwire Hybrid Charge Readout for Directional Dark Matter Searches
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• Observables for Recoil Identification in High-Definition Gas Time Projection Chambers
• Search for Dark Matter Scattering from Optically Levitated Nanoparticles
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• Probing light WIMPs with directional detection experiments
• Spin-Dependent Limits from the DRIFT-IId Directional Dark Matter Detector
• Monte Carlo Scattering-by-Scattering Simulation of 3-Dimensional Elastic WIMP-Nucleus Scattering Events
• 3-Dimensional Effective Velocity Distribution of Halo Weakly Interacting Massive Particles Scattering off Nuclei in Direct Dark Matter Detectors
• The asymmetry and the diurnal variation in axionic dark matter searches
• Micromegas detector developments for MIMAC
• The discrimination capabilities of Micromegas detectors at low energy
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• Dark Matter Search at Colliders and Neutrino Floor
• Dark Matter Directionality Revisited with a High Pressure Xenon Gas Detector
• Feedback cooling scheme for an optically levitated oscillator with controlled cross-talk
• Performance of 20:1 multiplexer for large area charge readouts in directional dark matter TPC detectors
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• Small scale direct dark matter search experiments
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• Dark Matter Time Projection Chamber: Recent R&D Results
• Dependence of the WIMP Angular Kinetic-Energy Distribution on the Solar Galactic Orbital Velocity
• Measurement of the electron drift velocity for directional dark matter detectors
• Modulation and diurnal variation in axionic dark matter searches
• Measurement of anisotropy of dark matter velocity distribution using directional detection