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Mineral Detection of Neutrinos and Dark Matter 2024. Proceedings

Sebastian Baum·Patrick Huber·Patrick Stengel·Natsue Abe·Daniel G. Ang·Lorenzo Apollonio·Gabriela R. Araujo·Levente Balogh·Pranshu Bhaumik Yilda Boukhtouchen·Joseph Bramante·Lorenzo Caccianiga·Andrew Calabrese-Day·Qing Chang·Juan I. Collar·Reza Ebadi·Alexey Elykov·Katherine Freese·Audrey Fung·Claudio Galelli·Arianna E. Gleason·Mariano Guerrero Perez·Janina Hakenmüller·Takeshi Hanyu·Noriko Hasebe·Shigenobu Hirose·Shunsaku Horiuchi·Yasushi Hoshino·Yuki Ido·Vsevolod Ivanov·Takashi Kamiyama·Takenori Kato·Yoji Kawamura·Chris Kelso·Giti A. Khodaparast·Emilie M. LaVoie-Ingram·Matthew Leybourne·Xingxin Liu·Thalles Lucas·Brenden A. Magill Federico M. Mariani·Sharlotte Mkhonto·Hans Pieter Mumm·Kohta Murase·Tatsuhiro Naka·Kenji Oguni·Kathryn Ream·Kate Scholberg·Maximilian Shen·Joshua Spitz·Katsuhiko Suzuki·Alexander Takla·Jiashen Tang·Natalia Tapia-Arellano·Pieter Vermeesch·Aaron C. Vincent·Nikita Vladimirov·Ronald Walsworth·David Waters·Greg Wurtz·Seiko Yamasaki·Xianyi Zhang
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The second "Mineral Detection of Neutrinos and Dark Matter" (MDvDM'24) meeting was held January 8-11, 2024 in Arlington, VA, USA, hosted by Virginia Tech's Center for Neutrino Physics. This document collects contributions from this workshop, providing an overview of activities in the field. MDvDM'24 was the second topical workshop dedicated to the emerging field of mineral detection of neutrinos and dark matter, following a meeting hosted by IFPU in Trieste, Italy in October 2022. Mineral detectors have been proposed for a wide variety of applications, including searching for dark matter, measuring various fluxes of astrophysical neutrinos over gigayear timescales, monitoring nuclear reactors, and nuclear disarmament protocols; both as paleo-detectors using natural minerals that could have recorded the traces of nuclear recoils for timescales as long as a billion years and as detectors recording nuclear recoil events on laboratory timescales using natural or artificial minerals. Contributions to this proceedings discuss the vast physics potential, the progress in experimental studies, and the numerous challenges lying ahead on the path towards mineral detection. These include a better understanding of the formation and annealing of recoil defects in crystals; identifying the best classes of minerals and, for paleo-detectors, understanding their geology; modeling and control of the relevant backgrounds; developing, combining, and scaling up imaging and data analysis techniques; and many others. During the last years, MDvDM has grown rapidly and gained attention. Small-scale experimental efforts focused on establishing various microscopic readout techniques are underway at institutions in North America, Europe and Asia. We are looking ahead to an exciting future full of challenges to overcome, surprises to be encountered, and discoveries lying ahead of us.

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Sebastian Baum, Patrick Huber, Patrick Stengel, Natsue Abe, Daniel G. Ang, Lorenzo Apollonio, Gabriela R. Araujo, Levente Balogh, Pranshu Bhaumik Yilda Boukhtouchen, Joseph Bramante, Lorenzo Caccianiga, Andrew Calabrese-Day, Qing Chang, Juan I. Collar, Reza Ebadi, Alexey Elykov, Katherine Freese, Audrey Fung, Claudio Galelli, Arianna E. Gleason, Mariano Guerrero Perez, Janina Hakenmüller, Takeshi Hanyu, Noriko Hasebe, Shigenobu Hirose, Shunsaku Horiuchi, Yasushi Hoshino, Yuki Ido, Vsevolod Ivanov, Takashi Kamiyama, Takenori Kato, Yoji Kawamura, Chris Kelso, Giti A. Khodaparast, Emilie M. LaVoie-Ingram, Matthew Leybourne, Xingxin Liu, Thalles Lucas, Brenden A. Magill Federico M. Mariani, Sharlotte Mkhonto, Hans Pieter Mumm, Kohta Murase, Tatsuhiro Naka, Kenji Oguni, Kathryn Ream, Kate Scholberg, Maximilian Shen, Joshua Spitz, Katsuhiko Suzuki, Alexander Takla, Jiashen Tang, Natalia Tapia-Arellano, Pieter Vermeesch, Aaron C. Vincent, Nikita Vladimirov, Ronald Walsworth, David Waters, Greg Wurtz, Seiko Yamasaki, Xianyi Zhang. 2024-05-02. Mineral Detection of Neutrinos and Dark Matter 2024. Proceedings. https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.01626

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