# IDM2016

17-22 July 2016
Master Cutlers Hall
Europe/London timezone

## Carbon nanotubes as a target for directional WIMP detection

19 Jul 2016, 14:00
20m
Venue: Cutlers' Drawing Room (First Floor); Chair: Daniel Santos; Session Manager: Andrew Scarff ()

### Speaker

Gianluca Cavoto (INFN Roma)

### Description

Large arrays of aligned carbon nanotubes (CNTs), open at one end, could be used as target material for the directional detection of weakly interacting dark matter particles (WIMPs). As a result of a WIMP elastic scattering on a CNT, a carbon ion might be injected in the body of the array and propagate through multiple collisions within the lattice. The ion may eventually emerge from the surface with open end CNTs, provided that its longitudinal momentum is large enough to compensate energy losses and its transverse momentum approaches the channeling conditions in a single CNT. A proper choice of the angle formed between the WIMP wind apparent orientation and the direction of parallel CNTs would therefore provide the capability to identify this WIMP wind direction. We present here the results of calculations and simulations for an array of aligned CNT and derive some constraints on the CNT target efficiency. We also introduce an experimental method to demonstrate and measure the actual CNT target efficiency to channel ions and derive the sensitivity for an ideal detector in a region of low mass WIMPs ($\approx 11$GeV).

### Primary author

Gianluca Cavoto (INFN Roma)

### Co-authors

Prof. Antonio Davide Polosa (Sapienza Univ. Roma) Mrs. Elisabetta Baracchini (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare) Dr. Fabrizio Murtas (INFN LNF) Dr. Francesco Renga (INFN Roma) Dr. Jacopo Ferretti (INFN Roma)

### Presentation Materials

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