High precision measurements were made of reduced mobility, lateral and longitudinal diffusion of CS2- negative ions in 40 Torr CS2 and a 30 - 10 Torr CS2 - CF4 gas mixture. The reduced mobility was found to be 353.0 +/- 0.5 cm^2 Torr / s V in CS2 and
397.4 +/- 0.7 cm^2 Torr / s V in the CS2 - CF4 gas mixture at STP. The lateral diffusion temperatures for these two gases (295 +/- 15 K and 297 +/- 6 K) were found to be in good agreement with room temperature. By contrast longitudinal diffusion temperature was found to be slightly elevated (319 +/- 10 (stat) +/- 8 (sys) K and 310 +/- 20 (stat) +/- 6 (sys) K) though given the errors, room temperature diffusion can not be ruled out. For lateral diffusion significant capture distances (0.21 +/- 0.07 mm and 0.15 +/- 0.03 mm) were measured while for longitudinal diffusion the results were not conclusive.
Data are presented from the DRIFT-IId detector housed in the Boulby mine in northeast England. A 0.8 m^3 fiducial volume, containing partial pressures of 30 Torr CS2 and 10 Torr CF4, was exposed for a duration of 47.4 live-time days with sufficient p
assive shielding to provide a neutron free environment within the detector. The nuclear recoil events seen are consistent with a remaining low level background from the decay of progeny of radon daughters attached to the central cathode of the detector. However, energy depositions from such events must drift across the entire width of the detector, and thus display large diffusion upon reaching the readout planes of the device. Exploiting this feature, it is shown to be possible to reject energy depositions from these radon decay progeny events while still retaining sensitivity to nuclear recoil events. The response of the detector is then interpreted, using the F nuclei content of the gas, in terms of sensitivity to proton spin-dependent WIMP-nucleon interactions, displaying a minimum in sensitivity cross section at 0.5 pb for a WIMP mass of 100 GeV/c^2.
