Speaker
Harold Pinckney
(University of Massachusetts at Amherst)
Description
An important topic in dark matter research is the search for sub-GeV dark matter. Direct detection searches for sub-GeV dark matter can be conducted through scattering on Silicon nuclei utilizing a detector with energy threshold on the order of 10 eV. This low threshold can be achieved by thermalizing a Transition-Edge Sensor (TES) based detector with gram scale silicon absorbers. This talk describes the design of a 10 eV threshold TES based detector as well as recent fabrication and testing progress.
Primary author
Harold Pinckney
(University of Massachusetts at Amherst)
Co-authors
Clarence Chang
(Argonne National Lab)
Prof.
Enectali Figueroa-Feliciano
(Northwestern University)
Gensheng Wang
(Argonne NAtional Laboratory)
Dr
Noemie Bastidon
(Northwestern University)
Dr
Valentine Novosad
(Argonne National Lab)
Dr
Volodymyr Yefremenko
(Argonne National Lab)
Dr
Ziqing Hong
(Northwestern University)
