Snowmass2021 Cosmic Frontier: The landscape of low-threshold dark matter direct detection in the next decade

Abstract

The search for particle-like dark matter with meV-to-GeV masses has developed rapidly in the past few years. We summarize the science case for these searches, the recent progress, and the exciting upcoming opportunities. Funding for Research and Development and a portfolio of small dark matter projects will allow the community to capitalize on the substantial recent advances in theory and experiment and probe vast regions of unexplored dark-matter parameter space in the coming decade.

Contribution to Snowmass 2021. v2: includes endorsers and minor changes

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