Speaker
Description
Dual-phase xenon TPCs have been at the forefront of direct dark matter detection for the last two decades. Originally designed to search for weakly interacting massive particles scattering off xenon nuclei, continued developments to reduce radioactive backgrounds, increase active mass, and improve signal reconstruction have made these detectors suitable to search for several other rare-event physics channels. Searches for solar-neutrino interactions are of particular interest, including the recent measurement of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering from B8, and pp solar neutrinos. Thanks to the extended dynamic range, other neutrino nuclear processes can also be investigated, such as double electron capture, double beta decay, and other second-order weak decays of xenon isotopes. In this talk, I will provide an overview of the developments that have made dual-phase xenon TPCs an ideal detector to probe both dark matter and neutrino physics, and I will discuss the prospects for next-generation detectors.
