Publications (11)
Wide Aperture Exoplanet Telescope: a low-cost flat configuration for a 100+ meter ground based telescope
Benjamin Monreal, Christian Rodriguez, Ama Carney +2
The Wide Aperture Exoplanet Telescope (WAET) is a ground-based optical telescope layout in which one dimension of a filled aperture can be made very, very large (beyond 100 m) at l…
Search for stable Strange Quark Matter in lunar soil
Ke Han, Jeffrey Ashenfelter, Alexei Chikanian +7
We report results from a search for strangelets (small chunks of Strange Quark Matter) in lunar soil using the Yale WNSL accelerator as a mass spectrometer. We have searched over a…
Gaseous forms of Ge, Se, Zr, Mo, Sn, and Te: new avenues to future time projection chambers
Aneesha Avasthi, Benjamin Monreal, Ivana Moya
Searches for neutrinoless double beta decay are growing larger, with tonne-scale targets in several nuclides still far from exhausting the discovery space. What's beyond ton scale?…
An eccentric transit timing test of modified gravity
Benjamin Monreal, Xavier Moskala, Sofia Splawska
The MOND modified gravity paradigm, best known for its agreement with galactic rotation curve data, is difficult to devise laboratory tests for. MOND's predictions differ substanti…
High-pressure TPCs in pressurized caverns: opportunities in dark matter and neutrino physics
Benjamin Monreal
The natural gas and hydrogen storage industries have experience creating huge, pressurized underground spaces. The most common of these is "solution mining", a method for making br…
WAET: low-cost ground based telescopes for accelerated exoplanet direct imaging
Benjamin Monreal, Dominic Oddo, Christian Rodriguez
The Wide Aperture Exoplanet Telescope (WAET) is a new ground-based optical telescope layout with an extremely asymmetric aperture, which results in new exoplanet imaging reach at v…
Relativistic Cyclotron Radiation Detection of Tritium Decay Electrons as a New Technique for Measuring the Neutrino Mass
Benjamin Monreal, Joseph A. Formaggio
The shape of the beta decay energy distribution is sensitive to the mass of the electron neutrino. Attempts to measure the endpoint shape of tritium decay have so far seen no disto…
Spallation nuclei in substellar objects: a new dark-matter signature?
Benjamin Monreal, Lorne A. Nelson, Joseph A. Formaggio
Although dark matter makes up 80% of the gravitational mass of our Galaxy, its composition is not known. One hypothesis is that dark matter consists of massive particles called WIM…
Sub-Penning gas mixtures: new possibilities for ton- to kiloton-scale time projection chambers
Benjamin Monreal, Luiz de Viveiros, William Luszczak
In this work, we present the concept for large low-background experiments in which an unusual gas mixture gas serves as a seamless, high-QE, near-100\%-coverage photodetector for s…
Underground physics without underground labs: large detectors in solution-mined salt caverns
Benjamin Monreal
A number of current physics topics, including long-baseline neutrino physics, proton decay searches, and supernova neutrino searches, hope to someday construct huge (50 kiloton to…
Determining the neutrino mass with Cyclotron Radiation Emission Spectroscopy - Project 8
Ali Ashtari Esfahani, David M. Asner, Sebastian Böser +41
The most sensitive direct method to establish the absolute neutrino mass is observation of the endpoint of the tritium beta-decay spectrum. Cyclotron Radiation Emission Spectroscop…