UCLA Dark Matter 2023

Session

SESSION 16: Direct detection: New Concepts (CHAIR: Alvine Kamaha -UCLA)

1 Apr 2023, 07:30

PAB- 1-425 (UCLA)

182. The Snowball Chamber: Supercooled Water for Dark Matter, Neutrinos, and General Particle Detection

Matthew Szydagis

01/04/2023, 07:30

Non-directional direct dark matter detection

Talk

The snowball chamber is analogous to the bubble and cloud chambers in that it relies on a phase transition, but it is new to high-energy particle physics. The concept of the snowball chamber relies on supercooled water (or a noble element, for scintillation for energy reconstruction), which can remain metastable for long time periods in a sufficiently clean and smooth container (on the level...

180. Mineral Detectors for Neutrinos and Dark Matter

Sebastian Baum (Stanford University)

01/04/2023, 07:45

Non-directional direct dark matter detection

Talk

Minerals have been used as nuclear track detectors for more than 50 years - nuclear recoils leave latent damage in the crystal structure. In the past years, there has been much interest in fundamental physics applications for such detectors, not least because of advances in microscopy techniques that have revolutionized our abilities to image defects at the nm scale. In this talk, I will...

357. The NOA Facility @ LNGS

Roberto Tartaglia

01/04/2023, 08:00

Nuova Officina Assergi (NOA) is a Clean Room (CR) - classification ISO6 according to the ISO 14644-1 standard, intended for the construction and assembly of advanced electronic devices. This facility arises as a fundamental part of the Dark side-20K project and it has been realised thanks to two Italian government fundings called “Piano Operativo Nazionale 2014-2020” (PON) and “Programma di...