Paleo-detectors: Searching for dark matter with ancient minerals
Paleo-detectors: Searching for dark matter with ancient minerals
We explore paleo-detectors as an approach to the direct detection of weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter radically different from conventional detectors. Instead of instrumenting a (large) target mass in a laboratory in order to observe WIMP-induced nuclear recoils in real time, the approach is to examine ancient minerals …