1. <u>MIMAC</u>: A micro-tpc matrix for dark matter directional detection
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F.J. Iguaz, J. Billard, Q. Riffard, I. Giomataris, J. P. Richer, O. Guillaudin, D. Santos, Efrain J. Ferrer, G. Bosson, Ch. Fourel, F. Mayet, O. Bourrion, J. Lamblin, J. L. Bouly, D. Maire, J.F. Muraz, L. Lebreton, Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (LPSC), Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Laboratoire de Métrologie et de Dosimétrie des Neutrons (LMDN), Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire (IRSN), MIMAC, Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Laboratoire de Métrologie et de Dosimétrie des Neutrons (IRSN/PRP-HOM/SDE/LMDN)
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History ,Particle physics ,Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO) ,Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors ,[SDU.ASTR.CO]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO] ,Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors ,Dark matter ,FOS: Physical sciences ,Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics ,7. Clean energy ,01 natural sciences ,Particle detector ,Cosmology ,Particle identification ,Education ,[PHYS.ASTR.CO]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO] ,0103 physical sciences ,010306 general physics ,ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS ,Physics ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,Detector ,MicroMegas detector ,Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det) ,Computer Science Applications ,Dark matter halo ,Halo ,Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics - Abstract
The dark matter directional detection opens a new field in cosmology bringing the possibility to build a map of nuclear recoils that would be able to explore the galactic dark matter halo giving access to a particle characterization of such matter and the shape of the halo. The MIMAC (MIcro-tpc MAtrix of Chambers) collaboration has developed in the last years an original prototype detector based on the direct coupling of large pixelized micromegas with a devoted fast self-triggered electronics showing the feasibility of a new generation of directional detectors. The discovery potential of this search strategy is discussed and illustrated. In June 2012, the first bi-chamber prototype has been installed at Modane Underground Laboratory (LSM) and the first underground background events, the gain stability and calibration are shown., Proceedings of the 6th Symposium on Large TPCs for low energy rare event detection, Paris, December 2012
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- 2013
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