The case for a directional dark matter detector and the status of current experimental efforts

International Journal of Modern Physics A

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-51

  Ahlen, S ^a   Afshordi, N ^w,ae   Battat, J B R ^o   Billard, J ^k   Bozorgnia, N ^c   Burgos, S ^u   Caldwell, T ^o,v   Carmona, J M ^l,m   Cebrian, S ^l,m   Colas, P ^d   Dafni, T ^l,m   Daw, E ^z   Dujmic, D ^o   Dushkin, A ^b   Fedus, W ^o   Ferrer, E ^d   Finkbeiner, D ^f   Fisher, P H ^o   Forbes, J ^u   Fusayasu, T ^p   Galan, J ^l,m   Gamble, T ^z   Ghag, C ^e   Giomataris, I ^d   Gold, M ^r   Gomez, H ^l,m   Gomez, M E ^g   Gondolo, P ^ac   Green, A ^t   Grignon, C ^k   Guillaudin, O ^k   Hagemann, C ^r   Hattori, K ^j   Henderson, S ^o   Higashi, N ^j   Ida, C ^j   Iguaz, F J ^l,m   Inglis, A ^a   Irastorza, I G ^l,m   Iwaki, S ^j   Kaboth, A ^o   Kabuki, S ^j   Kadyk, J ⁿ   Kallivayalil, N ^o   Kubo, H ^j   Kurosawa, S ^j   Kudryavtsev, V A ^z   Lamy, T ^k   Lanza, R ^o   Lawson, T B ^z   Lee, A ^o   Lee, E R ^r   Lin, T ^f   Loomba, D ^r   Lopez, J ^o   Luzon, G ^l,m   Manobu, T ⁱ   Martoff, J ^aa   Mayet, F ^k   McCluskey, B ^z   Miller, E ^r   Miuchi, K ^j   Monroe, J ^o   Morgan, B ^ad   Muna, D ^s   Murphy, A St J ^e   Naka, T ^q   Nakamura, K ^j   Nakamura, M ^q   Nakano, T ^q   Nicklin, G G ^z   Nishimura, H ^j   Niwa, K ^q   Paling, S M ^z   Parker, J ^j   Petkov, A ^u   Pipe, M ^z   Pushkin, K ^u   Robinson, M ^z   Rodriguez, A ^l,m   Rodriguez Quintero, J ^g   Sahin, T ^o   Sanderson, R ^o   Sanghi, N ^r   Santos, D ^k   Sato, O ^q   Sawano, T ^j   Sciolla, G ^o   Sekiya, H ^ab   Slatyer, T R ^f   Snowden Ifft, D P ^u   Spooner, N J C ^z   Sugiyama, A ^x   Takada, A ^y   Takahashi, M ^j   Takeda, A ^ab   Tanimori, T ^j   Taniue, K ^j   Tomas, A ^l,m   Tomita, H ^a   Tsuchiya, K ^j   Turk, J ^r   Tziaferi, E ^z   Ueno, K ^j   Vahsen, S ⁿ   Vanderspek, R ^o   Vergados, J ^h   Villar, J A ^l,m   Wellenstein, H ^b   Wolfe, I ^o   Yamamoto, R K ^o   Yegoryan, H ^o   more..

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d CEA SACLAY   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^f HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF HUELVA   (Spain)

^h UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

ⁱ INSTITUTE OF PARTICLE AND NUCLEAR STUDIES   (Japan)

^j KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^k UNIVERSITÉ JOSEPH FOURIER GRENOBLE 1   (France)

^l UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^m Lab Subterraneo Astropart Canfranc   (Spain)

ⁿ LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^o MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^p NAGASAKI INSTITUTE OF APPLIED SCIENCE   (Japan)

^q NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^r UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^s NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^t UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^u OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^v UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^w PERIMETER INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Canada)

^x SAGA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^y JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^z UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^aa TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^ab UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^ac UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^ad UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^ae UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

more..

Author keywords

Dark matter; Directional detection

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951278241     PISSN: 0217751X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0217751X10048172     Document Type: Article

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