First High-Throughput Evaluation of Dark Matter Detector Materials
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| author | Griffin, Sinéad M. Hochberg, Yonit Lehmann, Benjamin V. Ovadia, Rotem Persson, Kristin A. Suter, Bethany A. Yang, Ruo Xi Zhao, Wayne |
| author_facet | Griffin, Sinéad M. Hochberg, Yonit Lehmann, Benjamin V. Ovadia, Rotem Persson, Kristin A. Suter, Bethany A. Yang, Ruo Xi Zhao, Wayne |
| contents | We perform the first high-throughput search and evaluation of materials that can serve as excellent low-mass dark matter detectors. Using properties of close to one thousand materials from the Materials Project database, we project the sensitivity in dark matter parameter space for experiments constructed from each material, including both absorption and scattering processes between dark matter and electrons. Using the anisotropic materials in the dataset, we further compute the level of daily modulation in interaction rates and the resulting directional sensitivities, highlighting materials with prospects to detect the dark matter wind. Our methods provide the basic tools for the data-driven design of dark matter detectors, and our findings lay the groundwork for the next generation of highly optimized direct searches for dark matter as light as the keV scale. |
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| spellingShingle | First High-Throughput Evaluation of Dark Matter Detector Materials Griffin, Sinéad M. Hochberg, Yonit Lehmann, Benjamin V. Ovadia, Rotem Persson, Kristin A. Suter, Bethany A. Yang, Ruo Xi Zhao, Wayne High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Materials Science High Energy Physics - Experiment Instrumentation and Detectors We perform the first high-throughput search and evaluation of materials that can serve as excellent low-mass dark matter detectors. Using properties of close to one thousand materials from the Materials Project database, we project the sensitivity in dark matter parameter space for experiments constructed from each material, including both absorption and scattering processes between dark matter and electrons. Using the anisotropic materials in the dataset, we further compute the level of daily modulation in interaction rates and the resulting directional sensitivities, highlighting materials with prospects to detect the dark matter wind. Our methods provide the basic tools for the data-driven design of dark matter detectors, and our findings lay the groundwork for the next generation of highly optimized direct searches for dark matter as light as the keV scale. |
| title | First High-Throughput Evaluation of Dark Matter Detector Materials |
| topic | High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Materials Science High Energy Physics - Experiment Instrumentation and Detectors |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19905 |