5 papers
Reconstructing Dark Matter Mass and Discriminating Standard and Non-Standard WIMP-Nucleus Interactions with Paleo-Detectors
Dionysios P. Theodosopoulos, Katherine Freese, Chris Kelso +1
Paleo-detectors record and retain crystal damage in ancient minerals from nuclear recoils induced by dark matter scattering over geological timescales. Previous studies have shown…
Toward Neutrino and Dark Matter Detection with Ancient Minerals: TEM Study of Heavy-Ion Tracks in Olivine
Andrew Calabrese-Day, Emilie LaVoie-Ingram, Kathryn Ream +5
Solar, supernova, and atmospheric neutrinos, and possibly weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter, have been interacting in the Earth beneath our feet for billions o…
Projected Sensitivity of Paleo-Detectors to Dark Matter Effective Interactions with Nuclei
Dionysios P. Theodosopoulos, Katherine Freese, Chris Kelso +1
Paleo-detectors are a proposed experimental technique for direct detection (DD) of dark matter (DM) via the read-out of DM-induced nuclear recoil tracks in natural minerals. The la…
Mineral Detection of Neutrinos and Dark Matter 2025 Proceedings
Shigenobu Hirose, Patrick Stengel, Natsue Abe +70
The third ``Mineral Detection of Neutrinos and Dark Matter'' (MDDM'25) meeting was held May 20-23, 2025 in Yokohama, Japan, hosted by the Yokohama Institute for Earth Sciences,…
Nuclear recoil detection with color centers in bulk lithium fluoride
Gabriela A. Araujo, Laura Baudis, Nathaniel Bowden +19
We present initial results on nuclear recoil detection based on the fluorescence of color centers created by nuclear recoils in lithium fluoride. We use gamma rays, fast and therma…