Design and Construction of Prototype Dark Matter Detectors

Peter Fisher

关键词: dark matter;    nuclear recoiled;   

DOI  :  10.2172/1036958
RP-ID  :  DM-012
PID  :  OSTI ID: 1036958

学科分类：物理（综合）

美国|英语

来源: SciTech Connect

【 摘 要 】

The Lepton Quark Studies (LQS) group is engaged in searching for dark matter using the Dark Matter Time Projection Chamber (DMTPC) at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) (Carlsbad, NM). DMTPC is a direction-sensitive dark matter detector designed to measure the recoil direction and energy deposited by fluorine nuclei recoiling from the interaction with incident WIMPs. In the past year, the major areas of progress have been: to publish the first dark matter search results from a surface run of the DMTPC prototype detector, to build and install the 10L prototype in the underground laboratory at WIPP which will house the 1 m{sup 3} detector, and to demonstrate charge and PMT readout of the TPC using prototype detectors, which allow triggering and {Delta}z measurement to be used in the 1 m{sup 3} detector under development.