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Center for Particles and Fields Seminar

Prof. Nader Mirabolfathi, Texas A&M

"Toward Single-Electron Resolution Phonon-Mediated Ionization Detectors for Dark Matter and Neutrino Experiments"

4:00pm, RLM 9.222

Abstract: Experiments seeking to detect rare event interactions such as Dark Matter or Coherent Elastic Neutrino Nucleus Scattering (CENNS) are striving for large mass detectors with very low detection threshold. After a brief review of Dark Matter and CENNS searches, I will discuss very low temperature, athermal phonon readout semiconductor detectors as an excellent candidate for those experiments. I will present latest results from one of our prototype detectors that has led to world’s best resolution of about 7 eVee and our path toward single-electron resolution detectors.