Mineral Detection of Neutrinos and Dark Matter
Room 420 (Watanabe Hall)Speakers: Patrick Stengel (Jozef Stefan Institute) Minerals are solid state nuclear track detectors - nuclear recoils in a mineral leave latent damage to the crystal structure. Depending on the mineral and its temperature, the damage features are retained in the material from minutes to timescales much larger than the age of the Solar System. The ... Read more