Search for Dark Matter with Carbon Nanotubes: the ANDROMeDa Project

by Francesco Pandolfi (INFN Rome)

Monday 7 Feb 2022, 16:00 → 17:30 Europe/Rome

Aula Conversi (Dip. di Fisica )

Vertically-aligned carbon nanotubes offer exciting new possibilities in
the design of particle detectors, because of their vanishing density in
the direction of the tube axes. ANDROMeDa (Aligned Nanotube Detector for
Research On MeV Darkmatter) is a three-year project starting in 2022 which
has been granted a 1M? PRIN grant, and has the aim of developing a novel
detector sensitive to electron recoils induced by Dark Matter scattering
within a target made of aligned nanotubes. The detector will have
directional sensitivity and will be sensitive to Dark Matter with mass as
low as a few MeV. The nanotubes are synthesized in the state-of-the-art
facility recently established by INFN in Sapienza.

 

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