3 papers
physics.ins-det2025
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,…
nucl-ex2025
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…
cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024
First-principles Spin and Optical Properties of Vacancy Clusters in Lithium Fluoride
Mariano Guerrero Perez, Keegan Walkup, Jordan Chapman +5
Vacancy-cluster color centers in lithium fluoride have been studied in detail both theoretically and experimentally for over a century, giving rise to various applications in solid…