Direct detection searches for WIMP dark matter

A very active hunt is underway to discover the composition of dark matter in the universe. A large effort is devoted to the direct detection of dark matter through interactions with detectors in the laboratory. In this paper, we give an overview of the dark matter problem, discuss some of the design considerations taken in direct detection experiments, and describe some of the current efforts to discover Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs), a well-motivated class of candidates for dark matter.     

Solvability of linear kinetic equations with multi-energetic inelastic scattering

In this paper we shall analyse the linear Boltzmann equation describing the motion of test particles through a background of heavy field particles that can appear in several energy states. The inelastic scattering process consists in the exchange of quanta of energy between the field and test particles. The well-posedness of the problem is investigated by means of the substochastic semigroup theory and the conditions on the scattering collision frequencies are given for the evolution to keep the collision rate finite and to preserve the total number of particles.     

Phonon density of states of tetracyanoethylene from coherent inelastic neutron scattering at Dhruva reactor

Inelastic neutron scattering experiments to determine phonon density of states of coherent scattering samples of polycrystalline complex solids are generally intensity-limited and therefore are feasible only at high flux facilities. Phonon density of states of the monoclinic phase of tetracyanoethylene at 300 K, obtained using the medium resolution triple axis spectrometer at the new Indian medium flux reactor Dhruva are reported here. The raw data is converted to the “neutron weighted” phonon density of states by applying suitable corrections. Comparison made with results from a theoretical calculation based on a semirigid molecule model of lattice dynamics is fair. Results from Dhruva are also consistent with that obtained (to be published) at the high flux pulsed neutron source (ISIS) of the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in United Kingdom.     

Some applications of polarized inelastic neutron scattering in magnetism

A brief account of applications of polarized inelastic neutron scattering in condensed matter research is given. We show that full polarization analysis is the only tool allowing to discriminate unambiguously between different magnetic modes in various magnetic materials. We show by means of recent results in the Heisenberg ferromagnet EuS that the effects of dipolar interactions can be studied on a microscopic scale. Moreover, we have found for the first time indications for the divergence of the longitudinal fluctuations belowT _c. In the itinerant antiferromagnet chromium we demonstrate that the dynamics of the longitudinal and transverse excitations are very different, resolving a long standing puzzle concerning the slope of their dispersion. Finally, we show that a measurement of the polarization-dependent part of the cross section of non-centrosymmetric MnSi proves directly that the chirality of the magnetic fluctuations is left-handed.     

Theoretical LSP detection rates for dark-matter detectors

Low-energy structure of the dark-matter detector nuclei ⁷¹Ga, ⁷³Ge and ¹²⁷I has been studied by using the nuclear shell model. The calculations have been done in realistic model spaces by using renormalized microscopic two-body interactions. The resulting ground states have been used to calculate theoretical predictions for detection rates of the lightest supersymmetric particle (LSP) in experiments studying elastic scattering of the LSP’s from atomic nuclei. Presented by T.S. Kosmas at the Workshop on calculation of double-beta-decay matrix elements (MEDEX’05), Corfu, Greece, September 26–29, 2005.     

Analysis of inelastic scattering processes of electrons by localized electrons in quantum dots

The inelastic Coulomb scattering rate 1/τ_in of conduction electrons has been theoretically evaluated in the presence of localized states such as quantum dots. By a diagrammatical method, we have formulated 1/τ_in and its relation to the conductivity σ_loc(ω) through localized states. The dependence of τ_in on temperature T is examined in the case that σ_loc(ω) follows the Mott's model. It is found that 1/τ_in varies as T²(ln Δ/T)^d+1 where d is the dimensionality and Δ is tunneling energy between the localized states in the asymptonic T = 0 limit, in agreement with Imry's calculation. It is also found that calculated 1/τ_in deviates from T²(ln Δ/T)^d+1 as T increases, suggesting the importance of correction term at high temperature.     

Structure of water in mesoporous organosilica by calorimetry and inelastic neutron scattering

In this paper, we describe the preparation of mesoporous organosilica samples with hydrophilic or hydrophobic organic functionality inside the silica channel. We synthesized mesoporous organosilica of identical pore sizes based on two different organic surface functionality namely hydrophobic (based on octyltriethoxysilane OTES) and hydrophilic (3-aminopropyltriethoxysilane ATES) and MCM-41 was used as a reference system. The structure of water/ice in those porous silica samples have been investigated over a range temperatures by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and inelastic neutron scattering (INS). INS study revealed that water confined in hydrophobic mesoporous organosilica shows vibrational behavior strongly different than bulk water. It consists of two states: water with strong and weak hydrogen bonds (with ratio 1:2.65, respectively), compared to ice-Ih. The corresponding O-O distances in these water states are 2.67 and 2.87 ?, which strongly differ compared to ice-Ih (2.76 ?). INS spectra for water in hydrophilic mesoporous organosilica ATES show behavior similar to bulk water, but with greater degree of disorder.     

Local field correction effect on inelastic Coulomb scattering lifetime of two-dimensional quasiparticles at low temperatures

We have investigated the effect of local field correction on the inelastic Coulomb scattering lifetime of high mobility quasiparticles in a quantum layer at low temperatures. By replacing temperature-dependent dynamic dielectric function for the zero-temperature one in calculations, we have considered our improved zero-temperature STLS local field correction for low temperatures in lifetime calculations and compared the results with those obtained from the RPA and Hubbard approximation. It has been found that the quasiparticle lifetime decreases by including the STLS local field factor in all temperatures, energies and layer thicknesses.     

Review of recent results in deep inelastic scattering

This talk gives a summary of recent results in deep inelastic lepton hadron scattering. This includes structure functions from inclusive measurements as well as fragmentation in semi-inclusive processes, mainly with respect to data from colliders such as HERA at DESY, and their associated phenomenology.     

Nuclear binding and deep inelastic scattering

We examine deep inelastic scattering using methods which have been successfully applied to study inclusive scattering of GeV electrons by nuclei. We find that the consistent inclusion of the binding effects allows to describe much better the data on nuclear matter to deuteron cross section ratios in the region of large x where binding fully accounts for the deviation of the cross section ratio from one.     

He-HBr体系各向异性势及非弹性散射截面的理论研究

首先用BFW势函数形式拟合在CCSD(T)/aug-cc-pVQZ理论水平下计算的He-HBr相互作用能数据,得到了He原子与HBr分子各向异性势;并与ESMSV势进行比较,验证了拟合势的可靠性;然后采用公认的精确度较高的CC近似方法计算了He-HBr碰撞体系能量在150meV下He原子和HBr分子碰撞的转动激发微分截面和分波截面,总结了该碰撞体系非弹性散射截面的变化规律.研究表明:①拟合势较好地描述了He-HBr系统相互作用的各向异性特征;利用碰撞体系分子间势的量子化学从头计算结果,可解决势能参数难以确定的问题.②低激发态被激发的几率要远远大于高激发态被激发的几率;激发态越高,大角散射的几率越大.③尾部效应仅在低激发态中产生,高激发态不产生尾部效应.     

Temperature dependence of the inelastic scattering in a GaAs/n-AlGaAs selectively doped heterojunction with InGaAs quantum dots

Inelastic scattering processes of two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) have been investigated in a inverted GaAs/n-AlGaAs heterojunction with self-organized InGaAs quantum dots (QDs) embedded near the 2DEG channel where the electron population in the QDs is controllable by the gate voltage V_g. By analyzing magnetoresistance, the inelastic scattering time τ_ε have been evaluated as functions of V_g at 0.6, 0.8, 1.2, and 1.7 K. It is found that τ_ε increases with V_g below 0.8 K and decreases above 1.2 K, which suggests that the dominant scattering mechanisms below 0.8 K and above 1.2 K are different. To interpret this behavior, we have calculated the inelastic scattering time theoretically. It is found that the experimental data are well explained by a theoretical model where a 2D electron is considered to be inelastically scattered both by the other 2D electrons and by the trapped electrons in QDs. It is also found that the 2DEG–2DEG scattering is dominant at low temperature, while the 2DEG-QDs scattering becomes important as the temperature increases.     

Simulation of neutron-tagged deep inelastic scattering at EicC

Measuring the pionic structure function is of high interest, as it provides a new area for understanding the strong interaction among quarks and testing QCD predictions. To this end, we investigate the feasibility and expected impact of a possible experiment at EicC(Electron-ion collider in China). We show the simulation results on the statistical precision of an EicC measurement, based on the model of leading neutron tagged DIS process and the parton distribution functions of the pion from JAM18 global analysis. The simulation shows that at EicC, the kinematics cover the x π range from 0.01 to 1, and the Q~2 range from 1 to 50 GeV~2, within the acceptable statistical uncertainty. Assuming an integrated luminosity of 50 fb~(-1), in the low-Q~2 region( 10 GeV~2), the Monte Carlo data show that the suggested measurement in the whole x π range reaches very high precision( 3%). To perform such an experiment, only the addition of a far-forward neutron calorimeter is needed.     

Electron-acoustic-phonon scattering in the quantum control of qubit states near the Si/SiO2 interface

We suggested a new mechanism for quantum control of a donor electron spin qubit state next to a Si/SiO₂ interface. The theoretical calculation results show that the shuttling time versus the donor depth (or electric field strength) exhibits a double-valley feature. The origin of the double-valley feature is discussed.     

Predicted Modulated Differential Rates for Direct WIMP Searches at Low Energy Transfers

The differential event rate for direct detection of dark matter,both the time averaged and the modulated one due to the motion of the Earth,are discussed.The calculations focus on relatively light cold dark matter candidates (WIMP) and low energy transfers.It is shown that for sufficiently light WIMPs the extraction of relatively large nucleon cross sections is possible.Furthermore for some WIMP masses the modulation amplitude may change sign,meaning that,in such a case,the maximum rate may occur six months later than naively expected.This effect can be exploited to yield information about the mass of the dark matter candidate,if and when the observation of the modulation of the event rate is established.