Experimental Particle and Astro-Particle Physics Seminar

Monday 8 Mar 2021, 14:00 → 16:00 Europe/Zurich

Cristina Botta (Universitaet Zuerich (CH))

Carbon nanostructures offer exciting new possibilities in the development of new particle detectors. Graphene is a 2-dimensional material, therefore a Dark Matter particle with mass between 1 MeV and 1 GeV can eject an electron from the carbon lattice directly into the vacuum. We will report on the development of two novel light dark matter detectors: the "G-FET', based on graphene nanoribbons and mainly developed at Princeton University within the framework of the PTOLEMY project; and the "dark-PMT", based on aligned carbon nanotubes and mainly developed at INFN Rome and Sapienza University, where a state-of-the art carbon nanotube growing facility was recently built and commissioned.

Zoom room link

Meeting ID: 912 1383 7955
Passcode: 069577
 

14:00 → 15:00 Carbon Nanostructures for Directional Light Dark Matter Detection

Speaker: Francesco Pandolfi (INFN Rome)

pandolfi_2021_03_08_zurich.pdf