no code implementations • 18 Dec 2017 • Simon Knapen, Tongyan Lin, Matt Pyle, Kathryn M. Zurek
We show that polar materials are excellent targets for direct detection of sub-GeV dark matter due to the presence of gapped optical phonons as well as acoustic phonons with high sound speed.
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Experiment