PIRSA:16110085

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https://pirsa.org/16110085

(Directional) Detection of Dark Matter with Graphene

Kahn, Y. (2016). (Directional) Detection of Dark Matter with Graphene. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. https://pirsa.org/16110085

Kahn, Yonatan. (Directional) Detection of Dark Matter with Graphene. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Nov. 22, 2016, https://pirsa.org/16110085 

          @misc{ scivideos_PIRSA:16110085,
            doi = {10.48660/16110085},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/16110085},
            author = {Kahn, Yonatan},
            keywords = {Particle Physics},
            language = {en},
            title = {(Directional) Detection of Dark Matter with Graphene},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics},
            year = {2016},
            month = {nov},
            note = {PIRSA:16110085 see, \url{https://scivideos.org/pirsa/16110085}}
          }

Yonatan Kahn Princeton University

Talk numberPIRSA:16110085
DOI10.48660/16110085
Source RepositoryPIRSA
Collection
Talk Type Scientific Series
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Abstract

Two-dimensional materials such as graphene sheets can serve as excellent detectors for dark matter (DM) with couplings to electrons. The ionization energy of graphene is O(eV), making it sensitive to DM as light as an MeV, and the ejected electron may be detected without rescattering in the target, preserving directional information. I will describe the first experimental proposal for directional detection of MeV-GeV scale DM, which can be implemented in the PTOLEMY relic neutrino experiment and has comparable sensitivity to proposals using semiconductor targets. I will also describe some potential avenues for using gapless systems like Weyl semimetals to detect DM down to the keV limit for warm DM.