Searching for Light Dark Matter with Aligned Carbon Nanotubes: The ANDROMeDa Project
The ANDROMeDa (Aligned Nanotube Detector for Research On MeV Dark matter) project aims to develop a novel Dark Matter detector based on carbon nanotubes: the “Dark-PMT”. The detector is designed to be sensitive to dark matter particles with mass between 1 MeV and 1 GeV. The detection scheme is based...
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| author | Virzi Federico Apponi Alice Cavoto Gianluca Mariani Carlo Pandolfi Francesco Rago Ilaria Ruocco Alessandro |
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| description | The ANDROMeDa (Aligned Nanotube Detector for Research On MeV Dark matter) project aims to develop a novel Dark Matter detector based on carbon nanotubes: the “Dark-PMT”. The detector is designed to be sensitive to dark matter particles with mass between 1 MeV and 1 GeV. The detection scheme is based on dark matter-electron scattering inside a target made of vertically-aligned carbon nanotubes. Vertically-aligned carbon nanotubes have reduced density in the direction of the tube axis, therefore the scattered electrons are expected to leave the target without being re-absorbed only if their momentum has a small enough angle with that direction, which is what happens when the tubes are parallel to the dark matter wind. This grants directional sensitivity to the detector, a unique feature in this dark matter mass range. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-1682dbdab5ad4c1a8c1ee969681d03c82023-03-21T10:32:53ZengEDP SciencesEPJ Web of Conferences2100-014X2023-01-012800600110.1051/epjconf/202328006001epjconf_ricap2022_06001Searching for Light Dark Matter with Aligned Carbon Nanotubes: The ANDROMeDa ProjectVirzi Federico0Apponi Alice1Cavoto Gianluca2Mariani Carlo3Pandolfi Francesco4Rago Ilaria5Ruocco Alessandro6Università degli studi dell’AquilaUniversità degli studi di Roma 3Università degli studi di Roma La SapienzaUniversità degli studi di Roma La SapienzaINFN sezione di Roma 1Università degli studi di Roma La SapienzaUniversità degli studi di Roma 3The ANDROMeDa (Aligned Nanotube Detector for Research On MeV Dark matter) project aims to develop a novel Dark Matter detector based on carbon nanotubes: the “Dark-PMT”. The detector is designed to be sensitive to dark matter particles with mass between 1 MeV and 1 GeV. The detection scheme is based on dark matter-electron scattering inside a target made of vertically-aligned carbon nanotubes. Vertically-aligned carbon nanotubes have reduced density in the direction of the tube axis, therefore the scattered electrons are expected to leave the target without being re-absorbed only if their momentum has a small enough angle with that direction, which is what happens when the tubes are parallel to the dark matter wind. This grants directional sensitivity to the detector, a unique feature in this dark matter mass range.https://www.epj-conferences.org/articles/epjconf/pdf/2023/06/epjconf_ricap2022_06001.pdf |
| spellingShingle | Virzi Federico Apponi Alice Cavoto Gianluca Mariani Carlo Pandolfi Francesco Rago Ilaria Ruocco Alessandro Searching for Light Dark Matter with Aligned Carbon Nanotubes: The ANDROMeDa Project EPJ Web of Conferences |
| title | Searching for Light Dark Matter with Aligned Carbon Nanotubes: The ANDROMeDa Project |
| title_full | Searching for Light Dark Matter with Aligned Carbon Nanotubes: The ANDROMeDa Project |
| title_fullStr | Searching for Light Dark Matter with Aligned Carbon Nanotubes: The ANDROMeDa Project |
| title_full_unstemmed | Searching for Light Dark Matter with Aligned Carbon Nanotubes: The ANDROMeDa Project |
| title_short | Searching for Light Dark Matter with Aligned Carbon Nanotubes: The ANDROMeDa Project |
| title_sort | searching for light dark matter with aligned carbon nanotubes the andromeda project |
| url | https://www.epj-conferences.org/articles/epjconf/pdf/2023/06/epjconf_ricap2022_06001.pdf |
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