28 July 2020 to 6 August 2020
virtual conference
Europe/Prague timezone

New Inelastic Channels for Sub-GeV Dark Matter Scattering

28 Jul 2020, 15:30
25m
virtual conference

virtual conference

Talk 09. Dark Matter Detection Dark Matter Detection

Speaker

Yonatan Kahn (University of Illinois)

Description

As the search for dark matter continues down to lower and lower masses, the kinematics of sub-GeV dark
matter scattering require moving beyond the approximation of free-particle scattering. I will describe two inelastic
channels relevant for sub-GeV dark matter detection which necessarily involve the condensed matter properties of
common detector materials: the Migdal effect in liquid nobles, and plasmon excitation in semiconductors. I will
outline the theoretical basis for these processes, discuss the importance of many-body effects in accurately
predicting the scattering rates, and speculate on whether these processes have already been observed at numerous
experiments.

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Primary author

Yonatan Kahn (University of Illinois)

Presentation materials