2012

Semiconductor Probes of Light Dark Matter

Graham, Peter W., Kaplan, David E., Rajendran, Surjeet et al.

Understand

Dark matter with mass below about a GeV is essentially unobservable in conventional direct detection experiments.

However, newly proposed technology will allow the detection of single electron events in semiconductor materials with significantly lowered thresholds.
This would allow detection of dark matter as light as an MeV in mass.
Compared to other detection technologies, semiconductors allow enhanced sensitivity because of their low ionization energy around an eV.

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