https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201920901031
Recoil Directionality Experiment
1 INFN Roma Tre, Roma 00146, Italy
2 Mathematics and Physics Department, Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Roma, 00146, Italy
3 Department of Physics, University of Houston, Houston, TX 7704, USA
4 Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Cagliari, Cagliari, 09042, Italy
5 Instituto de Física, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo 05508-090, Brazil
6 Gran Sasso Science Institute, L’Aquila AQ 67100, Italy
7 Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Napoli, Napoli 80126, Italy
8 Physics Department, Università degli Studi di Genova, Genova 16146, Italy
9 Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Genova, Genova 16146, Italy
10 Physics Department, Università degli Studi, Cagliari 09042, Italy
11 Chemistry and Pharmacy Department, Università degli Studi di Sassari, Sassari 07100, Italy
12 Istituto Nazionale Fisica Nucleare, Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, 95123 Catania, Italy
13 Physics Department, Università degli Studi Federico II, Napoli 80126, Italy
14 Physics Department, Sapienza Università di Roma, Roma 00185, Italy
15 Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Roma, Roma 00185, Italy
16 APC, Université Paris Diderot, CNRS/IN2P3, CEA/Irfu, Obs. de Paris, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris 75205, France
17 Physics Department, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
18 LPNHE Paris, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Université Paris Diderot, CNRS/IN2P3, Paris 75252, France
19 Università di Enna KORE, Enna 94100, Italy
20 INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (AQ) 67010, Italy
21 Istituto Nazionale Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa, Pisa 56127, Italy
22 Physics Department, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA
23 Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics of Siberian Branch Russian Academy of Sciences (BINP SB RAS), Novosibirsk, 630090 Russian Federation
24 Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, 40126, Italy
25 Physics and Astronomy Department, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
a e-mail: simone.sanfilippo@roma3.infn.it
Published online: 13 May 2019
Directional sensitivity to nuclear recoils could provide a smoking gun for a possible discovery of dark matter in the form of WIMPs. A hint of directional dependence of the response of a dual-phase liquid argon Time Projection Chamber was found in the SCENE experiment. Given the potential importance of such a capability in the frame work of dark matter searches, a new dedicated experiment, ReD (Recoil Directionality), was designed in the framework of the DarkSide Collaboration, in order to scrutinize this hint. This contribution will describe the performance of the detectors achieved during the first test-beam, the current status of ReD and the perspectives for physics measurements during the forthcoming beam-time.
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