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A project of a new detector for direct Dark Matter search: MACHe3

D. Santos, F. Mayet, Yu. M. Bunkov, A. Drezet, G. Duhamel, H. Godfrin, F. Naraghi, G. Perrin

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/0005332

Abstract

MACHe3 (MAtrix of Cells of superfluid He3) is a project of a new detector for direct Dark Matter (DM) search. A cell of superfluid He3 has been developed and the idea of using a large number of such cells in a high granularity detector is proposed.This contribution presents, after a brief description of the superfluid He3 cell, the simulation of the response of different matrix configurations allowing to define an optimum design as a function of the number of cells and the volume of each cell. The exclusion plot and the predicted interaction cross-section for the neutralino as a photino are presented.

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