2021/07/31 by Sergey Pereverzev
Physics and Astronomy · #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #Dark matter #Detector #Energy (signal processing) #Low energy #Nuclear physics #Optics #Particle Detector Development and Performance #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #cond-mat.mtrl-sci #cond-mat.supr-con #msc:82 #msc:85 #physics.ins-det
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.105.063002
21 page, 6 figures
arxiv created 2021/11/19 · openalex publication_date 2022/03/04 · arxiv updated 2022/03/14 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We hypothesize that avalanche-like releases of energy accumulated in materials due to radioactivity and other sources can produce parasitic background in dark matter particles searches and low-energy threshold detectors. We explore this hypothesis using published data on low-energy background in detectors and available condensed-matter physics information on excitations, defects, and energetic molecules which can be present in materials.