Eur. Phys. J. C 28, 203-209 (2003)
DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s2003-01190-8

Anisotropic scintillators for WIMP direct detection: revisited

R. Bernabei¹, P. Belli¹, F. Nozzoli¹ and A. Incicchitti<sup>2

1</sup>  Dip. di Fisica, Universitá di Roma "Tor Vergata" and INFN, sez. Roma2, 00133 Rome, Italy
²  Dip. di Fisica, Universitá di Roma "La Sapienza" and INFN, sez. Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy

(Received: 21 October 2002 / Published online: 14 April 2003)

Abstract
The possibility to effectively exploit the directionality of the measured counting rate as a signature for WIMPs by using anisotropic scintillators is revisited and discussed in some details.

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