Concept for a dark matter detector using liquid helium-4

W Guo, DN McKinsey - Physical Review D—Particles, Fields, Gravitation, and …, 2013 - APS
Direct searches for light dark matter particles (mass< 10 GeV) are especially challenging
because of the low energies transferred in elastic scattering to typical heavy nuclear targets …

Signatures of the superfluid-insulator phase transition in laser-driven dissipative nonlinear cavity arrays

A Tomadin, V Giovannetti, R Fazio, D Gerace… - Physical Review A …, 2010 - APS
We analyze the nonequilibrium dynamics of a gas of interacting photons in an array of
coupled dissipative nonlinear cavities when driven by a pulsed external coherent field …

Water-molecule dissociation by proton and hydrogen impact

H Luna, ALF De Barros, JA Wyer, SWJ Scully… - Physical Review A …, 2007 - APS
Time-of-flight-based mass analysis of charged water fragments have been used to measure
the dissociative and the nondissociative reaction pathways of water formed during collisions …

Signatures and detection prospects for sub-GeV dark matter with superfluid helium

Y You, J Smolinsky, W Xue, K Matchev, T Saab… - Journal of High Energy …, 2023 - Springer
A bstract We explore the possibility of using superfluid helium for direct detection of sub-GeV
dark matter (DM). We discuss the relevant phenomenology resulting from the scattering of …

Time-dependent independent-particle model calculation of multiple capture and ionization processes in and collisions

T Kirchner, M Horbatsch, HJ Lüdde - Physical Review A, 2002 - APS
Previous work on multielectron transitions in proton, antiproton, and He 2+-ion impact on
neon is extended to the case of argon targets for collision energies in the 5–1000 keV/amu …

Post-collisional effects in multiple ionization of neon by protons

EG Cavalcanti, GM Sigaud… - Journal of Physics B …, 2002 - iopscience.iop.org
Absolute cross sections for single and multiple ionization of Ne by fast (0.75–3.50 MeV)
protons have been measured. The comparison with available theoretical calculations shows …

Observation of multichannel collisions of cold metastable calcium atoms

D Hansen, A Hemmerich - Physical review letters, 2006 - APS
Recent theoretical work indicates that collisions between metastable alkaline-earth atoms
(AEAs) in the presence of external magnetic fields should be largely determined by partial …

Antiproton, proton and electron impact multiple ionization of rare gases

CC Montanari, JE Miraglia - … of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a study on multiple ionization of Ne, Ar, Kr and Xe by antiproton, proton and
electron impact. Four different aspects are involved in this work. First, the theoretical …

Absolute cross sections for multiple ionization of noble gases by swift protonimpact

EG Cavalcanti, GM Sigaud… - Journal of Physics B …, 2003 - iopscience.iop.org
Absolute cross sections, σ q+, for multiple ionization of He (q= 1), Ne (q= 1, 2, and 3), Ar (q=
1, 2, 3, and 4), Kr (q= 1, 2, 3, and 4), and Xe (q= 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5) atoms by protons in the …

Continuous loading of a conservative potential trap from an atomic beam

M Falkenau, VV Volchkov, J Rührig, A Griesmaier… - Physical review …, 2011 - APS
We demonstrate the fast accumulation of Cr 52 atoms in a conservative potential from a
guided atomic beam. Without laser cooling on a cycling transition, a dissipative step …