Jocelyn Monroe, Assistant Professor of Physics, Laboratory for Nuclear Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
A world-wide race is on to directly observe dark matter particles interacting in terrestrial detectors. Understanding backgrounds, and distinguishing them from dark matter signals, is the foremost experimental challenge. A novel approach, directional detection, has the potential to make the definitive observation of dark matter using the unique angular signature of the dark matter wind. I will discuss the potential of directional detection, and recent progress from the DMTPC collaboration.