Bulletin of the American Physical Society
Fall 2022 Meeting of the APS Division of Nuclear Physics
Volume 67, Number 17
Thursday–Sunday, October 27–30, 2022; Time Zone: Central Daylight Time, USA; New Orleans, Louisiana
Session PJ: Applications of Nuclear Physics II
10:30 AM–12:06 PM,
Sunday, October 30, 2022
Hyatt Regency Hotel
Room: Imperial 11
Chair: Mary Kidd, Tennessee Technological University
Abstract: PJ.00006 : Ta-180m - longest lived isomer with applications for dark matter detection
11:30 AM–11:42 AM
Presenter:
Bjoern Lehnert
(Berkeley Lab)
Author:
Bjoern Lehnert
(Berkeley Lab)
Furthermore, the cosmologically stable nature of Ta-180m can be used to test specific dark matter models. Strongly interacting dark matter can collide with Ta-180m leading to its de-excitation while absorbing the large angular momentum. The energy stored in the meta-stable state is the experimental signature for thermalized dark matter which would otherwise not be detectable in well-shielded underground WIMP experiments.
I will discuss the unique decay scheme of Ta-180m, its application for dark matter searches, and present previous results. I will also discuss different experimental proposals for future searches using tantalum.
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