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Energy loss in low energy nuclear recoils in dark matter detector materials

Sebastian Sassi
(
- Helsinki U. and
- Helsinki Inst. of Phys.
)
,
Matti Heikinheimo
(
- Helsinki U. and
- Helsinki Inst. of Phys.
)
,
Kimmo Tuominen
(
- Helsinki U. and
- Helsinki Inst. of Phys.
)
,
Antti Kuronen
(
- Helsinki U. and
- Helsinki Inst. of Phys.
)
,
Jesper Byggmästar
(
- Helsinki U. and
- Helsinki Inst. of Phys.
)

Jun 14, 2022

12 pages

Published in:

Phys.Rev.D 106 (2022) 6, 063012

Published: Sep 15, 2022

e-Print:

2206.06772 [hep-ph]

DOI:

10.1103/PhysRevD.106.063012 (publication)

Report number:

HIP-2022-13/TH

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Abstract: (APS)

Recent progress in phonon-mediated detectors with eV-scale nuclear recoil energy sensitivity requires an understanding of the effect of the crystalline defects on the energy spectrum expected from dark matter or neutrino coherent scattering. We perform molecular dynamics simulations to determine the amount of energy stored in the lattice defects as a function of the recoil direction and energy. This energy cannot be observed in the phonon measurement, thus affecting the observed energy spectrum compared to the underlying true recoil energy spectrum. We describe this effect for multiple commonly used detector materials and demonstrate how the predicted energy spectrum from dark matter scattering is modified.

Note:

10 pages, 5 figures, one table. The MD simulation data can be obtained from https://github.com/sebsassi/elosssim ; v2 matches the published version

nucleus: recoil
crystal: defect
energy: sensitivity
neutrino: coherent interaction
nucleus: energy
recoil: energy
dark matter: detector
recoil: energy spectrum
dark matter: scattering
quantum molecular dynamics

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