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Article Dans Une Revue Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics Année : 2012

Low energy electron/recoil discrimination for directional Dark Matter detection

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Directional detection is a promising Dark Matter search strategy. Even though it could accommodate to a sizeable background contamination, electron/recoil discrimination remains a key and challenging issue as for direction-insensitive detectors. The measurement of the 3D track may be used to discriminate electrons from nuclear recoils. While a high rejection power is expected above 20 keV ionization, a dedicated data analysis is needed at low energy. After identifying discriminant observables, a multivariate analysis, namely a Boosted Decision Tree, is proposed, enabling an efficient event tagging for Dark Matter search. We show that it allows us to optimize rejection while keeping a rather high efficiency which is compulsory for rare event search.With respect to a sequential analysis, the rejection is about 20 times higher with a multivariate analysis, for the same Dark Matter exclusion limit.

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in2p3-00694886 , version 1 (07-05-2012)

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J. Billard, F. Mayet, D. Santos. Low energy electron/recoil discrimination for directional Dark Matter detection. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2012, 07, pp.020. ⟨10.1088/1475-7516/2012/07/020⟩. ⟨in2p3-00694886⟩
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