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

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physics.ins-det2013★ 19 cited

Background Rejection in the DMTPC Dark Matter Search Using Charge Signals

J. P. Lopez, D. Dujmic, S. Ahlen +11

The Dark Matter Time Projection Chamber (DMTPC) collaboration is developing a low pressure gas TPC for detecting Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP)-nucleon interactions. Op…

astro-ph.IM2011★ 1 cited

Dark Matter Time Projection Chamber: Recent R&D Results

J. B. R. Battat, S. Ahlen, M. Chernicoff +14

The Dark Matter Time Projection Chamber collaboration recently reported a dark matter limit obtained with a 10 liter time projection chamber filled with CF4 gas. The 10 liter detec…

astro-ph.IM2011★ 19 cited

Background Rejection in the DMTPC Dark Matter Search Using Charge Signals

J. P. Lopez, S. Ahlen, J. Battat +25

The Dark Matter Time Projection Chamber (DMTPC) collaboration is developing low-pressure gas TPC detectors for measuring WIMP-nucleon interactions. Optical readout with CCD cameras…

astro-ph.IM2010★ 1 cited

DMTPC: Dark matter detection with directional sensitivity

J. B. R. Battat, S. Ahlen, T. Caldwell +21

The Dark Matter Time Projection Chamber (DMTPC) experiment uses CF_4 gas at low pressure (0.1 atm) to search for the directional signature of Galactic WIMP dark matter. We describe…

hep-ex2010★ 84 cited

First Dark Matter Search Results from a Surface Run of the 10-L DMTPC Directional Dark Matter Detector

S. Ahlen, J. B. R. Battat, T. Caldwell +21

The Dark Matter Time Projection Chamber (DMTPC) is a low pressure (75 Torr CF4) 10 liter detector capable of measuring the vector direction of nuclear recoils with the goal of dire…

astro-ph.CO2009★ 187 cited

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

S. Ahlen, N. Afshordi, J. B. R. Battat +109

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 conta…