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Dark matter is a hypothetical new form of matter that does not interact with the electromagnetic field and has a very weak interaction with ordinary matter. WIMPs are prime dark matter candidates, but most experiments are constrained to spin-independent interactions in the 10-100 GeV/$c^2$ mass range.
QUEST-DMC (Quantum Enhanced Superfluid Technologies for Dark Matter and Cosmology) is a collaboration, between Lancaster, Oxford, Royal Holloway University of London, and Sussex Universities, supported through the Quantum Technologies for Fundamental Physics UK programme.
QUEST-DMC will use superfluid He-3 as a dark matter collision target, aiming to reach the world-leading sensitivity to spin-dependent interactions of 0.1-1 GeV/$c^2$ mass dark matter candidates.
Here we discuss the development of superfluid He-3 bolometers, arguing that recoil energy of <10 eV can be detected using nanomechanical resonators, controlling the dominant sources of background and using quantum sensors.
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