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| author | Higashino, Satoshi Toyama, Wakako Shiraishi, Takuya Hoshino, Yasushi Naka, Tatsuhiro Miuchi, Kentaro |
| author_facet | Higashino, Satoshi Toyama, Wakako Shiraishi, Takuya Hoshino, Yasushi Naka, Tatsuhiro Miuchi, Kentaro |
| contents | Direction-sensitive direct dark matter search experiments have been conducted using gaseous detectors. In spite of the long history of the study on the energy deposition of charged particles in materials, a full agreement between the measured results and theoretical predictions, especially in a low energy scale, are yet to be achieved. It is thus important to measure the ionization yields of recoil nuclei for the experiments with gaseous detectors using an ionization charge readout scheme. This study measured the ionization yield using a low-energy ion beam facility at Kanagawa University. The ionization yields for fluorine ions with an energy range of 5 $\sim$ 50 keV were measured using a dedicated proportional wire chamber filled with $\mathrm{CF}_{4}$ gas at 0.06 atm. The low-energy ion injection scheme into a gaseous detector was established and the ionization yield for fluorine ions was obtained to be 0.45 at 30 keV with a moderate dependence on the ion energy. |
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| publishDate | 2026 |
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| spellingShingle | Measurement of ionization yield of low energy ions in low pressure $\mathrm{CF}_{4}$ gas for dark matter searches Higashino, Satoshi Toyama, Wakako Shiraishi, Takuya Hoshino, Yasushi Naka, Tatsuhiro Miuchi, Kentaro Instrumentation and Detectors High Energy Physics - Experiment Direction-sensitive direct dark matter search experiments have been conducted using gaseous detectors. In spite of the long history of the study on the energy deposition of charged particles in materials, a full agreement between the measured results and theoretical predictions, especially in a low energy scale, are yet to be achieved. It is thus important to measure the ionization yields of recoil nuclei for the experiments with gaseous detectors using an ionization charge readout scheme. This study measured the ionization yield using a low-energy ion beam facility at Kanagawa University. The ionization yields for fluorine ions with an energy range of 5 $\sim$ 50 keV were measured using a dedicated proportional wire chamber filled with $\mathrm{CF}_{4}$ gas at 0.06 atm. The low-energy ion injection scheme into a gaseous detector was established and the ionization yield for fluorine ions was obtained to be 0.45 at 30 keV with a moderate dependence on the ion energy. |
| title | Measurement of ionization yield of low energy ions in low pressure $\mathrm{CF}_{4}$ gas for dark matter searches |
| topic | Instrumentation and Detectors High Energy Physics - Experiment |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.17126 |