Conveners
Sensing III
- Yury Kolomensky
Dr
Sinéad Griffin
(Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
29/01/2019, 10:00
Quantum sensing
The direct detection of light dark matter (DM) relies on harnessing low-threshold events in target materials. Here I will discuss two proposals for the direct detection of light DM; Dirac materials and polar semiconductors. Using first-principles methods, we calculate the material-specific matrix elements, and show that DM scattering in an anisotropic crystal has a strong directional...
Prof.
Daniel McKinsey
(UC Berkeley)
29/01/2019, 10:30
Quantum sensing
We propose a new technology for dark matter direct detection, using superfluid helium as the target material. Superfluid helium has many merits as a detector target; these include good kinematic matching to low mass dark matter, feasibility for achieving good intrinsic radiopurity, multiple signals to enable radioavtive and instrumental background rejection, and its unique ability to be cooled...
