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most citedMechanical detection of nuclear decays

13 citations · 23 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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quant-ph2026

Optomechanical Detection of Individual Gas Collisions

Yu-Han Tseng, Clarke A. Hardy, T. W. Penny +4

We experimentally demonstrate the detection of momentum transfers from individual collisions of Kr, Xe, and SF with an optically levitated nanoparticle, finding good agreement…

physics.ins-det2026

Decay-Resolved Charge Changes from Radioactive Decays in Levitated Microparticles

Jiaxiang Wang, T. W. Penny, Yu-Han Tseng +2

We measure event-by-event discrete changes in the net electric charge of an optically levitated silica microsphere arising from individual radioactive decays within the sphere, in…

hep-ex2025★ 4 cited

Search for Dark Matter Scattering from Optically Levitated Nanoparticles

Yu-Han Tseng, T. W. Penny, Benjamin Siegel +2

The development of levitated optomechanics has enabled precise force sensors that operate in the quantum measurement regime, opening up unique opportunities to search for new physi…

physics.optics2024★ 6 cited

Optical Levitation of Arrays of Microspheres

Benjamin Siegel, Gadi Afek, Cecily Lowe +4

Levitated optomechanical systems are rapidly becoming leading tools for precision sensing of forces and accelerations acting on particles in the femtogram to nanogram mass range. T…

physics.ins-det2024★ 13 cited

Mechanical detection of nuclear decays

Jiaxiang Wang, T. W. Penny, Juan Recoaro +3

We report the detection of individual nuclear decays through the mechanical recoil of the entire micron-sized particle in which the decaying nuclei are embedded. Momentum conse…