NEWS: Nuclear Emulsions for WIMP Search
| Autor: | P. Monacelli, L. Consiglio, Mykhailo Vladymyrov, N. Di Marco, A. Chukanov, A.K. Managadze, S. Gorbunov, Tatiana Shchedrina, Yu. A. Gornushkin, A. Pastore, Valeri Tioukov, I. Bodnarchuk, M. De Serio, P. Strolin, C. Kamiscioglu, Aleksandar Aleksandrov, A. M. Anokhina, S. Buontempo, Taishi Katsuragawa, A. Di Crescenzo, Yuzuru Tawara, V. Gentile, M. Kamiscioglu, M. M. Chernyavskii, Mitsuhiro Nakamura, Toshiyuki Nakano, P. F. Loverre, R. A. Fini, D. A. Podgrudkov, Nicola D'Ambrosio, S. Machii, Annarita Buonaura, S. Simone, Tatsuhiro Naka, C. Sirignano, T. Asada, Ken'ichi Kuge, Osamu Sato, Adele Lauria, M. Yoshimoto, T. M. Roganova, A. M. Guler, S. Dmitrievski, G. De Lellis, A. Umemoto, Timur Dzhatdoev, S. Furuya, D. Bender, Masashi Kimura, N. I. Starkov, F. Pupilli, H. Ichiki, G. Galati, Maria Cristina Montesi, S. Zemskova, Natalia Polukhina, Nina P. Konovalova, A. Sotnikov, G. Rosa |
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Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors Computer science BitTorrent tracker business.industry Dark matter Detector FOS: Physical sciences Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det) Tracking (particle physics) Computer Science Applications Education WIMP Nuclear emulsion Computer vision Sensitivity (control systems) Artificial intelligence Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics business Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) Image resolution |
| Zdroj: | INSPIRE-HEP |
| Popis: | Nowadays there is compelling evidence for the existence of dark matter in the Universe. A general consensus has been expressed on the need for a directional sensitive detector to confirm, with a complementary approach, the candidates found in conventional searches and to finally extend their sensitivity beyond the limit of neutrino-induced background. We propose here the use of a detector based on nuclear emulsions to measure the direction of WIMP-induced nuclear recoils. The production of nuclear emulsion films with nanometric grains is established. Several measurement campaigns have demonstrated the capability of detecting sub-micrometric tracks left by low energy ions in such emulsion films. Innovative analysis technologies with fully automated optical microscopes have made it possible to achieve the track reconstruction for path lengths down to one hundred nanometers and there are good prospects to further exceed this limit. The detector concept we propose foresees the use of a bulk of nuclear emulsion films surrounded by a shield from environmental radioactivity, to be placed on an equatorial telescope in order to cancel out the effect of the Earth rotation, thus keeping the detector at a fixed orientation toward the expected direction of galactic WIMPs. We report the schedule and cost estimate for a one-kilogram mass pilot experiment, aiming at delivering the first results on the time scale of six years. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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