The Recoil Directionality (ReD) Experiment

Journal of Physics: Conference Series PAPER • THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE ISOPEN ACCESS The Recoil Directionality (ReD) Experiment S Sanfilippo1,2, P Agnes3, S Albergo4,5, I Albuquerque6, M Arba7, M Ave6, A Boiano8, W M Bonivento7, B Bottino9,10, S Bussino1,2Show full author list Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Volume 2374, International Conference on Technology and Instrumentation in Particle Physics 23/05/2021 - 28/05/2021 Online Citation S Sanfilippo et al 2022 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 2374 012162 DOI 10.1088/1742-6596/2374/1/012162 DownloadArticle PDF References 47 Total downloads Turn on MathJax Share this article Share this content via email Share on Facebook (opens new window) Share on Twitter (opens new window) Share on Mendeley (opens new window) Article and author information Abstract Directional sensitivity to nuclear recoils would provide a smoking gun for a possible discovery of dark matter in the form of WIMPs (Weakly Interacting Massive Particles). A hint of directional dependence of the response of a dual-phase argon Time Projection Chamber (TPC) was found in the SCENE experiment. Given the potential importance of such a capability in the framework of dark matter searches, a new dedicated experiment, ReD (Recoil Directionality), was designed by the Global Argon Dark Matter Collaboration, in order to scrutinize this hint. Prior to the irradiation with a neutron beam, the ReD TPC underwent a long campaign of characterization and optimization: some selected results are presented in this contribution.