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Anisotropic ionization threshold and directional sensitivity in solid state DM detectors
Matti Heikinheimo, Sebastian Sassi, Kimmo Tuominen +2
The threshold displacement energy for nuclear recoils depends strongly on the direction of the recoiling nucleus with respect to the crystal lattice. Assuming that similar dependen…
Energy loss due to defect creation in solid state detectors
Matti Heikinheimo, Sebastian Sassi, Kimmo Tuominen +2
The threshold displacement energy in solid state detector materials varies from several eV to ~100 eV. If a stable or long lived defect is created as a result of a nuclear recoil e…
Solar neutrinos and dark matter detection with diurnal modulation
Sebastian Sassi, Abolfazl Dinmohammadi, Matti Heikinheimo +4
We investigate the diurnal modulation of the event rate for dark matter scattering on solid targets arising from the directionally dependent defect creation threshold energy. In pa…
Pseudo-Goldstone dark matter: gravitational waves and direct-detection blind spots
Tommi Alanne, Nico Benincasa, Matti Heikinheimo +4
Pseudo-Goldstone dark matter is a thermal relic with momentum-suppressed direct-detection cross section. We study the most general model of pseudo-Goldstone dark matter arising fro…
Velocity Dependent Dark Matter Interactions in Single-Electron Resolution Semiconductor Detectors with Directional Sensitivity
Matti Heikinheimo, Kai Nordlund, Kimmo Tuominen +1
We investigate the velocity and recoil momentum dependence of dark matter interactions with ordinary matter. In particular we focus on the single-electron resolution semiconductor…
Direct and indirect probes of Goldstone dark matter
Tommi Alanne, Matti Heikinheimo, Venus Keus +2
There exists a general model framework where dark matter can be a vanilla WIMP-like thermal relic with a mass of (100 GeV), but it still escapes direct detection. This ha…