Challenges for the directional dark matter direct detection

Summary

This paper reviews the history, current challenges, and future prospects of gaseous time-projection-chambers (TPCs) for directional dark matter searches.

Key findings

• Directional methods are crucial for proving dark matter direct detection.
• Gaseous TPCs are the most mature devices for directional dark matter searches.
• Several challenges remain for gaseous TPCs in directional dark matter searches.

Methods

• Review of history, challenges, and prospects of gaseous TPCs.
• Focus on directional dark matter searches.

Limitations

• Existing challenges for gaseous TPCs in directional dark matter searches.

Applications

• Direct detection of dark matter.