Speaker
Vetri Velan
(Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
Description
The Helium Roton Apparatus for Light Dark Matter (HeRALD) experiment will use superfluid 4He to probe unexplored dark matter parameter space. Superfluid helium has several advantages: good kinematic matching to light dark matter candidates, ballistic quasiparticle propagation, scalability, and multiple signal channels for electronic vs. nuclear recoil discrimination. I will discuss recent progress by the TESSERACT collaboration to develop this technology, including work done at LBNL, UC Berkeley, and UMass Amherst. I will focus on detector development and instrumentation.
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Primary authors
TESSERACT Collaboration
Vetri Velan
(Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
