Snowmass2021 Cosmic Frontier: The landscape of low-threshold dark matter direct detection in the next decade

Conference · Tue Mar 15 00:00:00 EDT 2022

OSTI ID:1862251

Essig, Rouven  ^[1]; Giovanetti, Graham K.  ^[2]; Kurinsky, Noah  ^[3]; McKinsey, Dan ^[4]; Ramanathan, Karthik ^[5]; Stifter, Kelly  ^[6]; Yu, Tien-Tien  ^[7]

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1. YITP, Stony Brook
2. Williams Coll.
3. SLAC
4. LBL, Berkeley; UC, Berkeley
5. Caltech
6. Fermilab
7. Oregon U.

The search for particle-like dark matter with meV-to-GeV masses has developed rapidly in the past few years. We summarize the science case for these searches, the recent progress, and the exciting upcoming opportunities. Funding for Research and Development and a portfolio of small dark matter projects will allow the community to capitalize on the substantial recent advances in theory and experiment and probe vast regions of unexplored dark-matter parameter space in the coming decade.

• Research Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States); SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-07CH11359
• OSTI ID: 1862251
• Report Number(s): FERMILAB-CONF-22-181-PPD; arXiv:2203.08297; oai:inspirehep.net:2053446
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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