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Noise Equivalent Power and time constant of a submillimeter wave Hot-Electron Bolometer (HEB) made from monolayer graphene are analyzed using the lowest electron-phonon thermal conductance data reported to date. Frequency-domain multiplexed…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-11-17 Boris S. Karasik , Christopher B. McKitterick , Daniel E. Prober

Traditional direct detection experiments lack the sensitivity to probe the sub-GeV dark matter (DM), primarily due to the low energy of the expected nuclear recoils. In this work, we investigate cosmic-ray (CR) upscattering as a mechanism…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-30 Yang Yu , Guan-Sen Wang , Bo Zhang , Tian-Peng Tang , Bing-Yu Su , Lei Feng

We study how the combined observation of dark matter in various direct detection experiments can be used to determine the phenomenological properties of WIMP dark matter: mass, spin-dependent (SD) and spin-independent (SI) scattering cross…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-15 D. G. Cerdeno , C. Cuesta , M. Fornasa , E. Garcia , C. Ginestra , Ji-Haeng Huh , M. Martinez , Y. Ortigoza , M. Peiro , J. Puimedon , L. Robledo , M. L. Sarsa

Semiconductors with $\mathcal{O}(\text{meV})$ band gaps have been shown to be promising targets to search for sub-MeV mass dark matter (DM). In this paper we focus on a class of materials where such narrow band gaps arise naturally as a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-10 Hsiao-Yi Chen , Andrea Mitridate , Tanner Trickle , Zhengkang Zhang , Marco Bernardi , Kathryn M. Zurek

\textit{Ab initio} calculations within the density functional theory formalism are performed to investigate the stability and electronic properties of fluorinated bilayer graphene (bilayer fluorographene). A comparison is made to previously…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-01-25 Jozef Sivek , Ortwin Leenaerts , Bart Partoens , Francois Peeters

Anisotropic target materials are promising candidates for dark matter direct detection experiments, providing a directional sensitivity that can be used to distinguish a dark matter (DM) signal from the various Standard Model backgrounds.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-26 Benjamin Lillard , Aria Radick

The dark matter halo profile in the inner Galaxy is very uncertain. Yet its radial dependence toward the Galactic Center is of crucial importance for the determination of the gamma-ray and radio fluxes originating from dark matter…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-04-04 Thomas Lacroix , Celine Boehm , Joseph Silk

In direct searches of dark matter, multi-scatter signatures are now being sought to probe scattering cross sections that are large enough to make the detector optically thick to incident particles. We provide some significant updates to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-30 Harsh Aggarwal , Nirmal Raj

Few-layer graphene possesses low-energy carriers which behave as massive fermions, exhibiting intriguing properties in both transport and light scattering experiments. Lowering the excitation energy of resonance Raman spectroscopy down to…

We analyze the spectroscopic features of bilayer graphene determined by the formation of pairs of low-energy and split bands in this material. We show that the inter-Landau-level absorption spectrum in bilayer graphene at high magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. S. L. Abergel , Vladimir I. Fal'ko

The tight-binding model of a graphene bilayer is used to find the gap between the conduction and valence bands, as a function of both the gate voltage and as the doping by donors or acceptors. The total Hartree energy is minimized and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 L. A. Falkovsky

The scattering of dark matter (DM) particles with sub-GeV masses off nuclei is difficult to detect using liquid xenon-based DM search instruments because the energy transfer during nuclear recoils is smaller than the typical detector…

Quantum coherent effects can be probed in multilayer graphene through electronic transport measurements at low temperatures. In particular, bilayer graphene is known to be susceptible to quantum interference corrections of the conductivity,…

The self-annihilation of dark matter particles with mass in the MeV range can produce gamma rays via prompt or secondary radiation. The annihilation rate for such light dark matter particles is however tightly constrained by cosmic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-04 Alma X. Gonzalez-Morales , Stefano Profumo , Javier Reynoso-Córdova

Selective sensing of chiral molecules is a key aspect in fields spanning biology, chemistry, and pharmacology. However, conventional optical methods, such as circular dichroism (CD), encounter limitations owing to weak chiral light-matter…

We survey the sensitivity of past and present neutrino experiments to MeV-GeV scale dark matter, and find that these experiments possess novel sensitivity that has not yet fully explored. NO$\nu$A and BEBC are found to rule out the scalar…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-12 Luca Buonocore , Patrick deNiverville , Claudia Frugiuele

Neutrino and dark matter experiments with large-volume ($\gtrsim 1$ ton) detectors can provide excellent sensitivity to signals induced by energetic light dark matter coming from the present universe. Taking boosted dark matter as a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-16 Doojin Kim , Pedro A. N. Machado , Jong-Chul Park , Seodong Shin

We compute the nonlinear optical response of doped mono- and bilayer graphene using the full dispersion based on tight-binding models. The response is derived with the density matrix formalism using the length gauge and is valid for any…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-05 F. Hipolito , Alireza Taghizadeh , T. G. Pedersen

As the search space for light dark matter (DM) has shifted to sub-GeV DM candidate particles, increasing attention has turned to solid state detectors built from quantum materials. While traditional solid state detector targets (e.g. Si or…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-04 Elizabeth A. Peterson , Samuel L. Watkins , Christopher Lane , Jian-Xin Zhu

Astrometric surveys offer us a method to search for elusive cosmic signatures, such as ultralight dark photon dark matter and gravitational waves, by observing the deflection to the apparent positions of the stars. The detection…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-03 Haipeng An , Tingyu Li , Jing Shu , Xin Wang , Xiao Xue , Yue Zhao