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Dark Matter direct searches

✍ Scribed by Gascon, J

Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 2004
Tongue: English
Weight: 191 KB
Volume: 520
Category: Article
ISSN: 0168-9002
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2003.11.251

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✦ Synopsis

Different techniques are currently competing in the direct search of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMP) dark matter, which consists in observing in the laboratory nuclear recoils due to impact of WIMPs from our galactic halo. As an introduction to this Dark Matter session, the experimental context, the key challenges and the different techniques will be briefly summarized. The performance achieved by low-temperature detectors confers to them a leading role in this domain.

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