THE DRIFT DIRECTIONAL DARK MATTER EXPERIMENTS

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作者
Daw, E. [1 ]
Dorofeev, A. [2 ]
Fox, J. R. [3 ]
Gauvreau, J. -L. [3 ]
Ghag, C. [4 ]
Harmon, L. J. [3 ]
Harton, J. L. [2 ]
Gold, M. [5 ]
Lee, E. R. [5 ]
Loomba, D. [5 ]
Miller, E. H. [5 ]
Murphy, A. St. J. [4 ]
Paling, S. M. [1 ]
Landers, J. M. [3 ]
Phan, N. [5 ]
Pipe, M. [1 ]
Pushkin, K. [3 ]
Robinson, M. [1 ]
Sadler, S. W. [1 ]
Snowden-Ifft, D. P. [3 ]
Spooner, N. J. C. [1 ]
Walker, D. [1 ]
Warner, D. [2 ]
机构
[1] Univ Sheffield, Dept Phys & Astron, Sheffield S10 2TN, S Yorkshire, England
[2] Colorado State Univ, Dept Phys, Ft Collins, CO 80523 USA
[3] Dept Phys, Occidental Coll, Los Angeles, CA 90041 USA
[4] Univ Edinburgh, Sch Phys & Astron, Edinburgh E119 3JZ, Midlothian, Scotland
[5] Univ New Mexico, Dept Phys & Astron, New Mexico, NM 87131 USA
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CYGNUS 2011: THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DIRECTIONAL DETECTION OF DARK MATTER | 2012年 / 53卷
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10.1051/eas/1253002
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P1 [天文学];
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0704 ;
摘要
The current status of the DRIFT (Directional Recoil Identification From Tracks) experiment at Boulby Mine is presented, including the latest limits on the WIMP spin-dependent cross-section from 1.5 kg days of running with a mixture of CS2 and CF4. Planned upgrades to DRIFT lid are detailed, along with ongoing work towards DRIFT III, which aims to be the world's first 10 m(3)-scale directional Dark Matter detector.
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