Published January 15, 2024 | Published
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Single phonon detection for dark matter via quantum evaporation and sensing of ³He

Abstract

Dark matter is five times more abundant than ordinary visible matter in our Universe. While laboratory searches hunting for dark matter have traditionally focused on the electroweak scale, theories of low mass hidden sectors motivate new detection techniques. Extending these searches to lower mass ranges, well below 1GeV/c², poses new challenges as rare interactions with standard model matter transfer progressively less energy to electrons and nuclei in detectors. Here, we propose an approach based on phonon-assisted quantum evaporation combined with quantum sensors for detection of desorption events via tracking of spin coherence. The intent of our proposed dark matter sensors is to extend the parameter space to energy transfers in rare interactions to as low as a few meV for detection of dark matter particles in the keV/c² mass range.

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Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article’s title, journal citation, and DOI.

Funding

Funded by SCOAP3.

Acknowledgement

This work was supported by Quantum Information Science Enabled Discovery (QuantISED) for High Energy Physics and by the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231.

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