Dark Matter Direct Detection With Low Temperature Detectors

TL;DR

Low Temperature Detectors (LTDs) are highly sensitive and capable of effectively rejecting background noise, making them promising for detecting rare dark matter interactions, with ongoing experiments demonstrating their potential.

Contribution

This paper reviews the current status and future prospects of dark matter detection using LTD technologies, highlighting their advantages over other detection methods.

Findings

LTDs provide excellent signal-to-noise ratio and low energy thresholds.

They offer superior background rejection without heavy reliance on self-shielding.

Current experiments show promising results in dark matter searches.

Abstract

Low Temperature Detectors (LTDs) offer the best signal-to-noise performance and thus, lowest energy threshold among other particle detection technologies available today. The excellent background rejection provided by these detectors is essential to search for very rare and very low energy recoils expected from dark matter interactions. Furthermore, due to their very good event-by-event background rejection capabilities, LTDs do not heavily rely on self-shielding in order to mitigate radioactive backgrounds (in contrast with the monolithic liquid Noble Gas detectors) thus they can be more easily prototyped and tested for basic detector performance. A review of the status and prospects of the major Dark Matter search experiments using LTD technologies is presented here.