The Scintillating Bubble Chamber (SBC) is a rapidly developing new technology for sub-keV nuclear recoil detection. Demonstrations in liquid xenon at the few-gram scale have confirmed that this technique combines the event-by-event energy resolution of a liquid-noble scintillation detector with the world-leading electron-recoil discrimination capability of the bubble chamber, and in fact...
Large mass liquid xenon detectors, such as LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) and XENONnT, are leading the search for dark matter particles with masses above ~5 GeV/c^2, with both spin-dependent and spin-independent couplings. HydroX is a new effort to dissolve hydrogen into liquid xenon to allow these experiments to probe sub-GeV/c^2 dark matter. The use of hydrogen-doped xenon takes advantage of the kinematic...
A large experimental program is underway to extend the sensitivity of direct detection experiments, searching for interaction of Dark Matter with nuclei, down to the neutrino floor. However, such experiments are becoming increasingly difficult and costly due to the large target masses and exquisite background rejection needed for the necessary improvements in sensitivity. We investigate an...
Sub-GeV dark matter (DM) which interacts with electrons can excite electrons occupying molecular orbitals in a scattering event. In particular, aromatic compounds such as benzene or xylene
have an electronic excitation energy of a few eV, making them sensitive to DM as light as a few
MeV. These compounds are often used as solvents in organic scintillators, where the de-excitation
process...