Digging for dark matter: Spectral analysis and discovery potential of paleo-detectors
Digging for dark matter: Spectral analysis and discovery potential of paleo-detectors
Paleo-detectors are a recently proposed method for the direct detection of dark matter (DM). In such detectors, one would search for the persistent damage features left by DM--nucleus interactions in ancient minerals. Initial sensitivity projections have shown that paleo-detectors could probe much of the remaining weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) …