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SUMMARY:Mineral Detection of Neutrinos and Dark Matter
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DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Patrick Stengel (Jozef Stefan Institute)\n\nMinerals
  are solid state nuclear track detectors - nuclear recoils in a mineral le
 ave latent damage to the crystal structure. Depending on the mineral and i
 ts temperature\, the damage features are retained in the material from min
 utes to timescales much larger than the age of the Solar System. The damag
 e features from the fission fragments left by spontaneous fission of heavy
  unstable isotopes have long been used for fission track dating of geologi
 cal samples. Laboratory studies have demonstrated the readout of defects c
 aused by nuclear recoils with energies as small as ~1 keV. Using natural m
 inerals\, one could use the damage features accumulated over geological ti
 mescales to measure astrophysical neutrino fluxes (from the Sun\, supernov
 ae\, or cosmic rays interacting with the atmosphere) as well as search for
  Dark Matter. Research groups in Europe\, Asia\, and America have started 
 developing microscopy techniques to read out the nanoscale damage features
  in crystals left by keV nuclear recoils. The research program towards the
  realization of such mineral detectors is highly interdisciplinary\, combi
 ning geoscience\, material science\, applied and fundamental physics with 
 techniques from quantum information and Artificial Intelligence. In this t
 alk\, I will highlight the scientific potential of Dark Matter searches wi
 th mineral detectors and briefly describe status and plans of the Mineral 
 Detection of Neutrinos and Dark Matter (MDvDM) community.\n\nhttps://indic
 o.phys.hawaii.edu/event/2514/
LOCATION:Room 420 (Watanabe Hall)
URL:https://indico.phys.hawaii.edu/event/2514/
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