A directional nuclear recoil detector with sufficient target mass could be used to observe and distinguish different neutrino sources, to search for dark matter in the presence of irreducible background, including neutrinos, and to demonstrate the cosmological origin of a dark matter signal. I will review detector R&D efforts and experiments aimed at dark matter detection with directional...
The next generation of weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter (DM) detectors will be sensitive to coherent scattering of solar neutrinos from target nuclei, demanding an efficient background-signal discrimination tool. A directional detector would enable detection of WIMP DM below the "neutrino floor", otherwise an irreducible background. Diamond has been proposed as a...
