24–27 Mar 2025
UCLA Physics and Astronomy Building 1-425
US/Pacific timezone

The progress of ALETHEIA, a low-mass DM direct detection project with liquid helium-filled TPCs

27 Mar 2025, 16:20
15m
UCLA Physics and Astronomy Building 1-425

UCLA Physics and Astronomy Building 1-425

475 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095 darkmatter@physics.ucla.edu

Speaker

Junhui Liao

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ALETHEIA, standing for A Liquid hElium Time projection cHambEr In dArk matter, is a newly established direct detection project aiming to search for low-mass DM with liquid helium-filled time projection chambers (TPCs). The project was officially launched in 2020 and has made significant progress since then. In this talk, I will mainly demonstrate that a single-phase liquid helium (LHe) TPC is technologically viable; moreover, I will slightly discuss some of the challenges in building a dual-phase LHe TPC and the preliminary solutions.

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