Publication Type |
Journal Article |
School or College |
College of Science |
Department |
Physics |
Creator |
Gondolo, Paolo |
Title |
Recoil momentum spectrum in directional dark matter detectors |
Date |
2002-11 |
Description |
Directional dark matter detectors will be able to record the recoil momentum spectrum of nuclei hit by dark matter WIMPs. We show that the recoil momentum spectrum is the Radon transform of the WIMP velocity distribution. This allows us to obtain analytic expressions for the recoil spectra of a variety of velocity distributions. We comment on the possibility of inverting the recoil momentum spectrum and obtaining the three-dimensional WIMP velocity distribution from data. |
Type |
Text |
Publisher |
American Physical Society |
Journal Title |
Physical Review D |
Volume |
66 |
Issue |
10 |
First Page |
103513 |
Last Page |
103510 |
DOI |
10.1103/PhysRevD.66.103513 |
citatation_issn |
0556-2821 |
Subject |
Recoil momentum spectrum; Radon transform; WIMP; Weakly interacting massive particles; Velocity distribution |
Subject LCSH |
Dark matter (Astronomy); Particles (Nuclear physics) |
Language |
eng |
Bibliographic Citation |
Gondolo, P. (2002). Recoil momentum spectrum in directional dark matter detectors. Physical Review D, 66, 103513-10. |
Rights Management |
(c) American Physical Society http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.66.103513 |
Format Medium |
application/pdf |
Format Extent |
193,122 bytes |
Identifier |
ir-main,9217 |
ARK |
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Setname |
ir_uspace |
ID |
703014 |
Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s68d0ddg |