Speaker
Michael Litke
(University of Hawaii at Manoa)
Description
The directions of low energy nuclear recoils open windows into previously unprobed areas of physics. Specifically, directional detection of coherent elastic neutrino nucleus scattering (CE𝜈NS) would probe for new, beyond-the-standard-model (BSM) gauge bosons involved in that interaction as well as provide a tool for distinguishing between dark matter and neutrino scattering. This talk presents work from the development, construction, and first commissioning results of a 40L prototype gaseous TPC for directional detection of low energy nuclear recoils, as well as the prospects for scaling our TPCs up to active volumes of order 1m$^3$, which is necessary for both directional CE𝜈NS measurements and for dark matter searches.
Author
Michael Litke
(University of Hawaii at Manoa)
