Detection of light dark matter with optical phonons in polar materials
Abstract
We show that polar materials are excellent targets for direct detection of sub-GeV dark matter due to the presence of gapped optical phonons as well as acoustic phonons with high sound speed. We take the example of Gallium Arsenide (GaAs), which has the properties needed for experimental realization, and where many results can be estimated analytically. We find GaAs has excellent reach to dark photon absorption, can completely cover the freeze-in benchmark for scattering via an ultralight dark photon, and is competitive with other proposals to detect sub-MeV dark matter scattering off nuclei.
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC)
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- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1467950
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1544222
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- AC02-05CH11231; PHY-1607611; PHY-1316783; PHY-1002399
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- Physics Letters B
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- Journal Name: Physics Letters B Journal Volume: 785 Journal Issue: C; Journal ID: ISSN 0370-2693
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- Elsevier
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- Netherlands
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS
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Knapen, Simon, Lin, Tongyan, Pyle, Matt, and Zurek, Kathryn M. Detection of light dark matter with optical phonons in polar materials. Netherlands: N. p., 2018.
Web. doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2018.08.064.
Knapen, Simon, Lin, Tongyan, Pyle, Matt, & Zurek, Kathryn M. Detection of light dark matter with optical phonons in polar materials. Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2018.08.064
Knapen, Simon, Lin, Tongyan, Pyle, Matt, and Zurek, Kathryn M. Mon .
"Detection of light dark matter with optical phonons in polar materials". Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2018.08.064.
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title = {Detection of light dark matter with optical phonons in polar materials},
author = {Knapen, Simon and Lin, Tongyan and Pyle, Matt and Zurek, Kathryn M.},
abstractNote = {We show that polar materials are excellent targets for direct detection of sub-GeV dark matter due to the presence of gapped optical phonons as well as acoustic phonons with high sound speed. We take the example of Gallium Arsenide (GaAs), which has the properties needed for experimental realization, and where many results can be estimated analytically. We find GaAs has excellent reach to dark photon absorption, can completely cover the freeze-in benchmark for scattering via an ultralight dark photon, and is competitive with other proposals to detect sub-MeV dark matter scattering off nuclei.},
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journal = {Physics Letters B},
number = C,
volume = 785,
place = {Netherlands},
year = {Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 2018},
month = {Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 2018}
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