Speakers
Daniel Carney
(Berkeley National Lab)
David Moore
(Yale University)
Description
Optical and microwave readout of mechanical objects can be used to continuously detect the full 3d momentum vector of the object's center-of-mass. This can be done with target masses ranging from single ions to kilogram-scale objects. Increasingly, the limiting noise in these systems is determined by the quantum mechanical noise in the readout itself (the "standard quantum limit"). Nanomechanical sensors in this regime are particularly suited to directional detection in particle collisions. In this talk we will discuss a number of proposals and experimental realizations of this basic idea, targeting dark matter masses from keV to TeV, as well as sterile neutrinos produced in nuclear decays inside of the mechanical target masses.
Authors
Daniel Carney
(Berkeley National Lab)
David Moore
(Yale University)
