# Presentation: 374277

## A Direction Sensitive Dark Matter Detector

**Steve Ahlen**
**Boston University**
**March 7, 2007**

## Evidence of Non-Baryonic Dark Matter

**Fritz Zwicky, 1933: large velocities of galaxies in Coma Cluster**
**Gamow, Alpher, 1940’s and many since: big bang nucleosynthesis limits amount of baryonic matter**
**Vera Rubin and others, 1970’s: flat rotation curves of essentially all spiral galaxies**
**Bullet cluster, 2006: collision of two clusters of galaxies**
**Optical: galaxies pass through with small interaction**
**X-ray: hot gas (10 times mass of visible galaxies) pancakes due to large interaction**
**Weak lensing of background galaxies: most mass passes through with no interaction**
**Concordance model (cosmic microwave background, dark energy, large scale structure, inflation, etc.)**

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## Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs)

**Lightest supersymmetric particle is a leading candidate for dark matter**
**Isothermal halo of our Galaxy (****~ ****0.001 c)**
**Annihilation in Galaxy to make antiprotons**
**Annihilation in Sun to make neutrinos**
**Elastic interactions with nuclei**
**Many possible reactions (spin-dependent and spin-independent) and cross-sections**
**Recoil energy of tens of keV**
**Rate much less than 1 event / kg / day**

## Antiproton Excess in Cosmic Rays in 1981 was interpreted as neutralino annihilation in Galaxy(Silk, J., Srednicki, M., 1984, Phys. Rev. Lett. 50, 624)

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## Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer

## Positron Fraction

## If AMS Attached to Space Station

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## First Direct WIMP Search in 1987

**First Direct WIMP Search in 1987**

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## DAMA claimed discovery

- 100 kg NaI
- Pulse shape discrimination separates x-rays from recoils
- Annual modulation due to variations in relative velocity of dark matter particles

## CDMS

**CDMS**

## Calibration with gamma and neutron sources

**Calibration with gamma and neutron sources**

**Search at Soudan mine in Minnesota**

- Ahlen Calculation

## Limit based on 46 kg days exposure

**Limit based on 46 kg days exposure**

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## Occidental College, University of New Mexico, Sheffield University

## Range vs Energy is powerful technique for particle ID

**30keV F ions in 50mbar CF4 [15]. Typical ion range is about 1mm**.

**15keV electrons in 50mbar CF4 [16]. Typical electron range is about 30mm.**

## WIMP Wind in Our Galaxy

**Dark matter halo large compared to baryonic matter in spiral galaxy**
**Solar System rotates about galactic center with speed of 220 km/s**
**Dark matter particles move isotropically with speeds of a few hundred km/s**

## MIT/BU CF4 Prototype – Summer 2006

**MIT/BU CF4 Prototype – Summer 2006**
**Peter Fisher, Marta Lewandowska, Steve Ahlen, Hidefumi Tomita**

## 35 Successive Images for one second exposures

**35 Successive Images for one second exposures**

## Alpha Particle Track Diffusion = 275 microns, Gain = 30,000

## 45 degrees relative to wire direction

**45 degrees relative to wire direction**

**parallel to wire**

## 900 MeV proton1 atm

- 5 MeV alpha1/20 atm

- TRIM Calculations

## 800 keV alpha1/20 atmQuick Calculation

- 800 keV alpha1/20 atmDetailed Calculation

## 100 keV F ions in 50 mbar CF4

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## Next Generation Directional Prototypes

**Boston University**
**Steve Ahlen, Hidefumi Tomita, Debbie Avery, Eric Hazen**
**MIT**
**Peter Fisher, Jocelyn Monroe, Gabriella Sciolla, Dennis Dujmic, Roland Vanderspek**
**Brandeis**
**Hermann Wellenstein**
**Will work with DRIFT collaboration to explore various designs with electronic readout and optical readout**
**Head-tail direction sensitivity determined with neutron beams**
**Supported by DOE Advanced Detector Research Program and the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research**

## Two 25cm x 25cm x (2.5 to 25cm) drift cells
Anode wire diameter 30 or 50 microns
Wire pitch 2.5 mm
Three Dimension Reconstruction:
In anode plane by scintillation profiles on one or more wires (1 mm by 0.5 mm resolution for track length)
Perpendicular to anode plane by phototube pulse shape (1 mm resolution for track length)

**Anode wire diameter 30 or 50 microns**
**Wire pitch 2.5 mm**
**Three Dimension Reconstruction:**
**In anode plane by scintillation profiles on one or more wires (1 mm by 0.5 mm resolution for track length)**
**Perpendicular to anode plane by phototube pulse shape (1 mm resolution for track length)**

- Optical Readout

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## Cubic meter prototype to follow

**180 grams CF4**
**32 low cost (non-cooled) ccds with fast readout and lenses inside vacuum chamber**
**4 drift zones: each 1 meter by 1 meter by 25 cm**

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