Speaker
Luca Marin
(ETH Zürich)
Description
We present a detailed density functional theory (DFT) study of the electronic structure of atomic and liquid xenon, as a first step in quantifying the event rates in operating xenon-based detectors based on dark matter (DM) - electron scattering. Our main goal is to determine whether explicit modelling of the inter-atomic interactions in the liquid state changes the predicted event rates compared with current state-of-the-art models based on isolated Xe atoms.
| Theoretical Work | Theory |
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Authors
Luca Marin
(ETH Zürich)
Marek Matas
(ETH Zurich)
Nicola Spaldin
(ETH Zürich)
Einar Urdshals
Prof.
Riccardo Catena
(Chalmers University of Technology)
