%0 Journal Article
%T The DRIFT Project: Searching for WIMPS with a Directional Detector
%A M. J. Lehner
%A K. Griest
%A C. J. Martoff
%A G. E. Masek
%A T. Ohnuki
%A D. Snowden-Ifft
%A N. J. C. Spooner
%J Physics
%D 1999
%I arXiv
%X A low pressure time projection chamber for the detection of WIMPs is discussed. Discrimination against Compton electron background in such a device should be very good, and directional information about the recoil atoms would be obtainable. If a full 3-D reconstruction of the recoil tracks can be achieved, Monte Carlo studies indicate that a WIMP signal could be identified with high confidence from as few as 30 detected WIMP-nucleus scattering events.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9905074v1