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Dark matter direct detection with quantum dots
Stockholm University, Faculty of Science, The Oskar Klein Centre for Cosmo Particle Physics (OKC). Princeton University, Princeton, USA.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-8971-834x
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Number of Authors: 52023 (English)In: Physical Review D: covering particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology, ISSN 2470-0010, E-ISSN 2470-0029, Vol. 107, no 9, article id 095035Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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We propose using quantum dots as novel targets to probe sub-GeV dark matter-electron interactions. Quantum dots are nanocrystals of semiconducting material, which are commercially available, with gramscale quantities suspended in liter-scale volumes of solvent. Quantum dots can be efficient scintillators, with near unity single-photon quantum yields, and their band-edge electronic properties are determined by their characteristic size, which can be precisely tuned. Examples include lead sulfide and lead selenide quantum dots, which can be tuned to have sub-eV optical gaps. A dark-matter interaction can generate one or more electron-hole pairs (excitons), with the multiexciton state decaying via the emission of two photons with an efficiency of about 10% of the single-photon quantum yield. An experimental setup using commercially available quantum dots and two photomultiplier-tubes for detecting the coincident twophoton signal can already improve on existing dark-matter bounds, while using photodetectors with lower dark-count rates can improve on current constraints by orders of magnitude.

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URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-218362DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.107.095035ISI: 001000790800006Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85161143286OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-218362DiVA, id: diva2:1775726
Available from: 2023-06-27 Created: 2023-06-27 Last updated: 2023-06-27Bibliographically approved

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