Speaker
Samuel Wong
(University of Washington)
Description
Paleodetectors have been proposed as a new approach to direct detection of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), through the search for damage tracks in ancient minerals induced by dark matter-nucleon scattering. However, existing paleodetector targets are not sensitive to inelastic dark matter with sufficiently large mass splitting, such as the Higgsino in the minimal supersymmetric standard model. We propose to target the Higgsino by finding radiopure minerals that contain heavy elements such as lead. We identify promising mineral targets and find that they can probe new parameter space.
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