Particle and Astroparticle Physics Colloquium Hamburg

Quantum Universe Video Colloquium: Dark matter, neutrinos and nukes

by Patrick Huber (Virginia Tech)

Europe/Berlin
Zoom (DESY Hamburg)

Zoom

DESY Hamburg

Description
Crystal damage events such as tracks and point defects have been used to record and detect radiation for a long time and recently they have been proposed as a means for dark matter detection. Color centers can be read out optically and we propose a scheme based on selective plane illumination microscopy for sub-micron imaging of large volumes corresponding to kilogram mass detectors. This class of detectors would be passive and would operate at room temperature. I will discuss why passive detectors are attractive for security applications. They can be used to discover dark matter, measure CEvNS with reactor neutrinos, verify that no plutonium is made and that a nuclear warhead is a nuclear warhead.

This is a VIDEO COLLOQUIUM!

Connection details at https://desy.zoom.us/j/99616528733

Meeting ID: 996 1652 8733
Meeting Password: 733220