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EAS Publications Series
Volume 53, 2012
CYGNUS 2011: Third International Conference on Directional Detection of Dark Matter
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Page(s) | 137 - 145 | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/eas/1253017 | |
Published online | 15 February 2012 |
F. Mayet and D. Santos (eds)
EAS Publications Series, 53 (2012) 137-145
Track reconstruction with MIMAC
Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie, Université
Joseph Fourier Grenoble 1, CNRS/IN2P3, Institut Polytechnique de
Grenoble, Grenoble,
France
Directional detection of Dark Matter is a promising search strategy. However, to perform such kind of detection, the recoiling tracks have to be accurately reconstructed: direction, sense and position in the detector volume. In order to optimize the track reconstruction and to fully exploit the data from the MIMAC detector, we developed a likelihood method dedicated to the track reconstruction. This likelihood approach requires a full simulation of track measurements with MIMAC in order to compare real tracks to simulated ones. Finally, we found that the MIMAC detector should have the required performance to perform a competitive directional detection of Dark Matter.
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