2023-03-17 11:00  7F Meeting Room

The MIMAC directional Dark Matter detector

Prof. Charling Tao

Developing a directional Dark Matter detector has been a dream since the search for WIMPs (Weakly Interacting Massive Particles) started end 1980s. There are still many unknowns, and it is impossible to predict the size of the detector that is needed to detector DM, but a directional detector would be a superb signature for the galactic nature of DM, should it exist as WIMP. The MIMAC collaboration has developed a low pressure gaseous detector equipped with a Micromegas. It has been a long R&D and the observed tracks were measured longer then predicted by the SRIM simulations. We now have a complete understanding of how the detector is working and plan to install a 1m³ detector in the Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane in France.