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A. Petkov
Researcher at Occidental College
Publications - 11
Citations - 575
A. Petkov is an academic researcher from Occidental College. The author has contributed to research in topics: Dark matter & Directional Recoil Identification from Tracks. The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 11 publications receiving 557 citations.
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The case for a directional dark matter detector and the status of current experimental efforts
S. P. Ahlen,Niayesh Afshordi,Niayesh Afshordi,James Battat,J. Billard,Nassim Bozorgnia,S. Burgos,T. Caldwell,T. Caldwell,J. M. Carmona,S. Cebrián,P. Colas,T. Dafni,E. J. Daw,D. Dujmic,A. Dushkin,William Fedus,Efrain J. Ferrer,D. Finkbeiner,Peter H. Fisher,J. Forbes,T. Fusayasu,J. Galán,T. Gamble,C. Ghag,Ioannis Giomataris,Michael Gold,Haley Louise Gomez,M. E. Gomez,Paolo Gondolo,Anne M. Green,C. Grignon,O. Guillaudin,C. Hagemann,Kaori Hattori,Shawn Wesley Henderson,N. Higashi,C. Ida,F.J. Iguaz,Andrew Inglis,I. G. Irastorza,Satoru Iwaki,A. C. Kaboth,Shigeto Kabuki,J. Kadyk,Nitya Kallivayalil,H. Kubo,Shunsuke Kurosawa,V. A. Kudryavtsev,T. Lamy,Richard C. Lanza,T. B. Lawson,A. Lee,E. R. Lee,T. Lin,D. Loomba,Jeremy Lopez,G. Luzón,T. Manobu,J. Martoff,F. Mayet,B. Mccluskey,E. H. Miller,Kentaro Miuchi,Jocelyn Monroe,B. Morgan,D. Muna,A. St. J. Murphy,Tatsuhiro Naka,K. Nakamura,M. Nakamura,T. Nakano,G.G. Nicklin,H. Nishimura,K. Niwa,Sean Paling,Joseph D. Parker,A. Petkov,M. Pipe,K. Pushkin,Matthew R. Robinson,Arturo Rodriguez Rodriguez,Jose Rodríguez-Quintero,T. Sahin,Robyn E. Sanderson,N. Sanghi,D. Santos,O. Sato,Tatsuya Sawano,G. Sciolla,Hiroyuki Sekiya,Tracy R. Slatyer,D. P. Snowden-Ifft,N. J. C. Spooner,A. Sugiyama,A. Takada,M. Takahashi,A. Takeda,Toru Tanimori,Kojiro Taniue,A. Tomás,H. Tomita,K. Tsuchiya,J. Turk,E. Tziaferi,K. Ueno,S. E. Vahsen,R. Vanderspek,J D Vergados,J.A. Villar,H. Wellenstein,I. Wolfe,R. K. Yamamoto,H. Yegoryan +113 more
TL;DR: The case for a dark matter detector with directional sensitivity was presented at the 2009 CYGNUS workshop on directional dark matter detection, and contributions from theorists and experimental groups in the field as mentioned in this paper.
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The DRIFT-II dark matter detector: Design and commissioning
G. J. Alner,Henrique Araujo,A. Bewick,S. Burgos,M. J. Carson,J.C. Davies,E. J. Daw,J. V. Dawson,J. Forbes,T. Gamble,M. Garcia,C. Ghag,M. Gold,S. Hollen,R. J. Hollingworth,A. S. Howard,J. Kirkpatrick,V. A. Kudryavtsev,T. B. Lawson,V. N. Lebedenko,J.D. Lewin,P. K. Lightfoot,I. Liubarsky,D. Loomba,R. Lüscher,J. E. McMillan,B. Morgan,D. Muna,A. Murphy,G.G. Nicklin,Sean Paling,A. Petkov,S.J.S. Plank,R. M. Preece,J. J. Quenby,M. Robinson,N. Sanghi,N. J. T. Smith,P.F. Smith,Daniel P. Snowden-Ifft,N. J. C. Spooner,T. J. Sumner,Daniel Tovey,J. Turk,E. Tziaferi,Rodney Walker +45 more
TL;DR: The DRIFT-II detector as mentioned in this paper is a second generation multi-module gaseous dark matter detector with two time projection chambers positioned back-to-back inside a stainless steel vacuum vessel containing carbon disulphide gas.
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Studies of neutron detection and backgrounds with the DRIFT-IIa dark matter detector
S. Burgos,J. Forbes,C. Ghag,M. Gold,V. A. Kudryavtsev,T. B. Lawson,D. Loomba,Peter Majewski,D. Muna,A. St. J. Murphy,G.G. Nicklin,S. M. Paling,A. Petkov,S.J.S. Plank,Max Robinson,N. Sanghi,N. J. T. Smith,Daniel P. Snowden-Ifft,N. J. C. Spooner,T. J. Sumner,J. Turk,E. Tziaferi +21 more
TL;DR: In this article, a detailed calibration analysis comparing data from gamma-ray, X-ray and neutron sources to a GEANT4 Monte Carlo simulations reveals an efficiency for detection of neutron induced recoils of 94 ± 2 (stat.) ± 5 (sys.)%.
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First measurement of the head–tail directional nuclear recoil signature at energies relevant to WIMP dark matter searches
S. Burgos,E. J. Daw,J. Forbes,C. Ghag,M. Gold,C. Hagemann,V. A. Kudryavtsev,T. B. Lawson,D. Loomba,P. Majewski,D. Muna,A. St. J. Murphy,G.G. Nicklin,S. M. Paling,A. Petkov,S.J.S. Plank,Max Robinson,N. Sanghi,Daniel P. Snowden-Ifft,N. J. C. Spooner,J. Turk,E. Tziaferi +21 more
TL;DR: In this article, the so-called head-tail directional signature of neutron-induced nuclear recoil tracks at energies down to 15 kV/amu using the DRIFT-IIc dark matter detector is presented.
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Measurement of the range component directional signature in a DRIFT-II detector using 252 Cf neutrons
S. Burgos,E. J. Daw,J. Forbes,C. Ghag,M. Gold,C. Hagemann,V. A. Kudryavtsev,T. B. Lawson,D. Loomba,Peter Majewski,D. Muna,A. St. J. Murphy,G.G. Nicklin,S. M. Paling,A. Petkov,S.J.S. Plank,Max Robinson,N. Sanghi,Daniel P. Snowden-Ifft,N. J. C. Spooner,J. Turk,E. Tziaferi +21 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a 252Cf neutron source was placed on each of the principal axes of a DRIFT detector in order to test its ability to measure directional signatures from the three components of very low-energy (∼keV/amu) recoil ranges.