%0 Generic %1 wang2015graphenebased %A Wang, Shang-Yung %D 2015 %K graphene %R 10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-7071-2 %T Graphene-based detectors for directional dark matter detection %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1509.08801 %X Dark matter detectors with directional sensitivity have the capability to distinguish dark matter induced nuclear recoils from isotropic backgrounds, thus providing a smoking gun signature for dark matter in the Galactic halo. Motivated by recent progress in graphene and two-dimensional materials research, we propose a novel class of directional dark matter detectors utilizing graphene-based van der Waals heterostructures. A conceptual design of the detector based on graphene/hexagonal boron nitride and graphene/molybdenum disulfide heterostructures is developed and analyzed. The proposed detector has modular scalability, keV-scale detection threshold, nanometer position resolution, sensitivity down to 10 $GeV/c^2$ dark matter mass, and intrinsic head-tail discrimination and background rejection capabilities.

@misc{wang2015graphenebased, abstract = {Dark matter detectors with directional sensitivity have the capability to distinguish dark matter induced nuclear recoils from isotropic backgrounds, thus providing a smoking gun signature for dark matter in the Galactic halo. Motivated by recent progress in graphene and two-dimensional materials research, we propose a novel class of directional dark matter detectors utilizing graphene-based van der Waals heterostructures. A conceptual design of the detector based on graphene/hexagonal boron nitride and graphene/molybdenum disulfide heterostructures is developed and analyzed. The proposed detector has modular scalability, keV-scale detection threshold, nanometer position resolution, sensitivity down to 10 $\mathrm{GeV}/c^2$ dark matter mass, and intrinsic head-tail discrimination and background rejection capabilities.}, added-at = {2019-10-02T11:56:58.000+0200}, author = {Wang, Shang-Yung}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/218e6e2efaeda799808f9c72f0895202d/cmcneile}, description = {Graphene-based detectors for directional dark matter detection}, doi = {10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-7071-2}, interhash = {dbdadf8e35164ba5cfea69bbb75d240b}, intrahash = {18e6e2efaeda799808f9c72f0895202d}, keywords = {graphene}, note = {cite arxiv:1509.08801Comment: 13 pages, 5 figures, expanded and improved version, to appear in Eur. Phys. J. C}, timestamp = {2019-10-02T11:56:58.000+0200}, title = {Graphene-based detectors for directional dark matter detection}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1509.08801}, year = 2015 }