A Possible Dark Matter Search Mission in Space
Nickolas Solomey, Shrey Tripathi

TL;DR
This paper proposes a novel space-based dark matter detection method by deploying detectors on spacecraft or asteroids, leveraging unique locations to mitigate background noise and increase detection sensitivity.
Contribution
It introduces an innovative approach to dark matter detection by using space-based detectors on asteroids or spacecraft, bypassing Earth-based background limitations.
Findings
Potential for larger dark matter detectors using asteroid ice and structure.
A new method to differentiate dark matter signals by varying distance from the Sun.
Feasibility of deploying detectors on near-Earth asteroids.
Abstract
Direct detection of dark matter continues to elude scientists' many attempts to see it interact, and still to this day the only way we know it is there is through observed gravitational effects. The many search experiments are at the point where the search for dark matter direct observation is limited by the solar neutrino background signal here at Earth. Past experiments typically use a large volume central detector looking for energy materializing inside a detector volume that is not associated with any tracks of particles entering the volume through the surrounding active veto array and passive shielding. Here will be presented a new alternative method to see dark matter performing a search by changing the distance away from the Sun where the 1/r law could be removed from the observations in a known predictable way. A Dark Matter detector on a spacecraft or built inside an…
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Taxonomy
TopicsDark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena
