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SUMMARY:New Directions in Light Dark Matter Detection
DESCRIPTION:Featuring Yonit Hochberg \, Cornell\n\nPart of the HET Seminar 
	Series.\n\nThe exploration of dark matter beyond the WIMP is of vital impor
	tance towards resolving the identity of dark matter. One promising possibil
	ity is light dark matter\, which has gained much traction in recent years. 
	In this context\, I will present two new proposals for direct detection of 
	light dark matter. The first utilizes superconducting targets which are sen
	sitive to milli-eV energy deposits from dark matter-electron interactions. 
	Such devices could detect dark matter as light as the warm dark matter limi
	t of a keV with moderate size exposure. In the second\, two-dimensional tar
	gets such as graphene are proposed as the first directional detectors of su
	b-GeV dark matter--a proposal which can be implemented by the PTOLEMY exper
	iment. Considering dark matter scattering and absorption processes\, I will
	 demonstrate the potential of the light dark matter direct detection progra
	m in upcoming years.
LOCATION:PRB 565\, 3 Cummington Mall\, 02215
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