Title of article
Direction dependence and diurnal modulation in dark matter detectors
Author/Authors
Creswick، نويسنده , , Richard J. and Nussinov، نويسنده , , Shmuel and Avignone III، نويسنده , , Frank T.، نويسنده ,
Issue Information
روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2011
Pages
5
From page
62
To page
66
Abstract
In this paper we study the effect of the channeling of ions recoiling from collisions with weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) in single crystal detectors. In particular we investigate the possibility that channeling may give rise to diurnal modulations of the counting rate as the Earth rotates relative to the direction of the WIMP wind, and the effect that channeling has on the “quenching factor” of a detector.
Keywords
Dark matter , WIMP , Channeling , Quenching factor , Diurnal modulation
Journal title
Astroparticle Physics
Serial Year
2011
Journal title
Astroparticle Physics
Record number
1336084
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