Directional Dark Matter Search with NEWSdm

Despite significant searches for dark matter, experiments have so far produced no results. The latest generation of nuclear emulsions, nano imaging trackers (NIT), has nanometric precision and was created specifically for a directional DM search. The NIT emulsion is used as both the weakly interactive massive particle (WIMP) target and the nanometric-accuracy tracking device in the Nuclear Emulsion WIMP Search with Directional Measurement (NEWSdm) experiment, which is housed in the Gran Sasso underground laboratory in Italy. Detector design, the super-resolution readout technology, expected backgrounds, physics potential, and near-future plans are all discussed here.