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Light-Sensitive Materials: Silver Halide Emulsions, Photoresist, and Photopolymers
Published in Daniel Malacara-Hernández, Brian J. Thompson, Advanced Optical Instruments and Techniques, 2017
Sergio Calixto, Daniel J. Lougnot, Izabela Naydenova
An interesting theoretical study that comprises the use of nuclear photographic emulsions for investigation of dark matter is presented in reference 19. Dark matter particles are expected to be Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMP). To detect these WIMP particles with nuclear emulsions, a collision between the WIMP particles with Ag or Br atoms should take place. This article [67] shows details of emulsions containing different AgBr crystals. A good list of references is given there.
Light, the universe and everything – 12 Herculean tasks for quantum cowboys and black diamond skiers
Published in Journal of Modern Optics, 2018
Girish Agarwal, Roland E. Allen, Iva Bezděková, Robert W. Boyd, Goong Chen, Ronald Hanson, Dean L. Hawthorne, Philip Hemmer, Moochan B. Kim, Olga Kocharovskaya, David M. Lee, Sebastian K. Lidström, Suzy Lidström, Harald Losert, Helmut Maier, John W. Neuberger, Miles J. Padgett, Mark Raizen, Surjeet Rajendran, Ernst Rasel, Wolfgang P. Schleich, Marlan O. Scully, Gavriil Shchedrin, Gennady Shvets, Alexei V. Sokolov, Anatoly Svidzinsky, Ronald L. Walsworth, Rainer Weiss, Frank Wilczek, Alan E. Willner, Eli Yablonovitch, Nikolay Zheludev
Weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) are a prominent class of dark matter candidates. These particles naturally arise in a number of theories of physics beyond the standard model and if they exist, it can be shown that production processes in the early universe will generate a cosmic abundance for the WIMP that is comparable to the observed dark matter density. There are a number of experiments presently underway to detect the rare scattering of the WIMP. In these experiments, the WIMP (a particle with mass ~ 10 - 100 GeV) scatters off a nucleus, depositing a small amount of energy (~ 10 keV). This energy is detected using a variety of sensitive techniques. The next generation of WIMP detection experiments will be sensitive to the coherent scattering of solar neutrinos [67], creating an irreducible background for WIMP detection since the scattering topology of WIMPs and neutrinos is identical.