We hypothesize that avalanche-like releases of energy accumulated in materials due to radioactivity and other sources can produce parasitic background in dark matter particles searches and low-energy threshold detectors. We explore this hypothesis using published data on low-energy background in detectors and available condensed-matter physics information on excitations, defects, and energetic molecules which can be present in materials.
@article{arxiv.2107.14397,
title = {Detecting Low-Energy Interactions and the Effects of Energy Accumulation in Materials},
author = {Sergey Pereverzev},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.14397},
year = {2022}
}