Progress report on DRIFT-II

We present recent progress from the DRIFT (Directional Recoil Identification From Tracks) collaboration. We summarise recent work demonstrating 1) directional sensitivity to a neutron source in a 1m3 DRIFT-II detector in all 3 dimensions at energies of 50keV 2) first measurements of the head-tail effect in ∼keV/amu nuclear recoils using a DRIFT-II detector. We also summarise results of measurements of W-value, mobility and gas gain in CS2-CF4 gas mixtures from a single proportional counter experiment that suggest the potential of the DRIFT-II detector as a spin-dependant dark matter detector. © 2010 IOP Publishing Ltd