{
  "id": "hep-ex/9612014",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "1996-12-15T21:04:04.000Z",
  "updated": "1996-12-15T21:04:04.000Z",
  "title": "A Superheated Droplet Detector for Dark Matter Search",
  "authors": [
    "L. A. Hamel",
    "L. Lessard",
    "L. Rainville",
    "B. Sur",
    "V. Zacek"
  ],
  "comment": "15 pages LATEX; 11 figures on request from zacekv@lps.umontreal.ca submitted to Nuclear Instruments and Methods A",
  "journal": "Nucl.Instrum.Meth. A388 (1997) 91-99",
  "doi": "10.1016/S0168-9002(97)00074-0",
  "categories": [
    "hep-ex",
    "astro-ph"
  ],
  "abstract": "We discuss the operation principle of a detector based on superheated droplets of Freon-12 and its feasibility for the search of weakly interacting cold dark matter particles. In particular we are interested in a neutralino search experiment in the mass range from 10 to 10^4 GeV/c^2 and with a sensitivity of better than 10^-2 events/kg/d. We show that our new proposed detector can be operated at ambient pressure and room temperature in a mode where it is exclusively sensitive to nuclear recoils like those following neutralino interactions, which allows a powerful background discrimination. An additional advantage of this technique is due to the fact that the detection material, Freon-12, is cheap and readily available in large quantities. Moreover we were able to show that piezoelectric transducers allow efficient event localization in large volumes.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "1996-12-15T21:04:04.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "dark matter search",
      "superheated droplet detector",
      "interacting cold dark matter particles",
      "efficient event localization",
      "weakly interacting cold dark matter"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "LaTeX",
      "pages": 15,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 427444
    }
  }
}