Published May 2023
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Journal Article
Snowmass white paper: Light dark matter direct detection at the interface with condensed matter physics
Abstract
Direct detection experiments for light (sub-GeV) dark matter are making enormous leaps in reaching previously unexplored theory space. The need for accurate characterizations of target responses has led to a growing interplay between particle and condensed matter physics. This white paper summarizes recent progress on direct detection calculations that utilize state-of-the-art numerical tools in condensed matter physics and effective field theory techniques. These new results provide the theoretical framework for interpreting ongoing and planned experiments using electronic and collective excitations, and for optimizing future searches.
Additional Information
© 2023 Elsevier. We thank Marco Bernardi, Hsiao-Yi Chen, Ahmet Coskuner, Sinéad Griffin, Thomas Harrelson and Katherine Inzani for fruitful collaborations on subjects discussed in this white paper. A.M., T.T. and K.Z. were supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of High Energy Physics, under Award No. DE-SC0021431, and the Quantum Information Science Enabled Discovery (QuantISED) for High Energy Physics (KA2401032). K.Z. was also supported by a Simons Investigator Award. Z.Z. was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy under the grant DE-SC0011702. Data availability: No data was used for the research described in the article. The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.Additional details
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- 122376
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- CaltechAUTHORS:20230725-500492000.14
- Department of Energy (DOE)
- DE-SC0021431
- Department of Energy (DOE)
- KA2401032
- Simons Foundation
- Department of Energy (DOE)
- DE-SC0011702
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- Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics, TAPIR