Strange attractors in higher dimensions

We consider generic one-parameter families of diffeomorphisms on a manifold of arbitrary dimension, unfolding a homoclinic tangency associated to a sectionally dissipative saddle point (the product of any pair of eigenvalues has norm less than 1). We prove that such families exhibit strange attractors in a persistent way: for a positive Lebesgue measure set of parameter values. In the two-dimensional case this had been obtained in a joint work with L. Mora, based on and extending the results of Benedicks-Carleson on the quadratic family in the plane.