• Corpus ID: 247451087

Snowmass2021 Cosmic Frontier Dark Matter Direct Detection to the Neutrino Fog

@inproceedings{Akerib2022Snowmass2021CF,
  title={Snowmass2021 Cosmic Frontier Dark Matter Direct Detection to the Neutrino Fog},
  author={D. S. Akerib and Priscilla Brooks Cushman and Carl Eric Dahl and Reza Ebadi and Alden Fan and R. J. Gaitskell and Cristiano Galbiati and Graham K. Giovanetti and Graciela B. Gelmini and Luca Grandi and Scott Haselschwardt and Christopher Jackson and Rafael F. Lang and B. Loer and Dinesh Loomba and Mason C Marshall and A. Mills and Caroline OHare and Claudio Savarese and J. Schueler and Matthew Szydagis and Volodymyr Takhistov and Tim M. P. Tait and Yu-Dai Tsai and S. E. Vahsen and Ronald L. Walsworth and S. Westerdale},
  year={2022}
}

• D. Akerib, P. Cushman, +24 authors S. Westerdale
• Published 15 March 2022
• Physics

We present a summary of future prospects for direct detection of dark matter within the GeV/c2 to TeV/c2 mass range. This is paired with a new definition of the neutrino fog in order to better quantify the rate of diminishing returns on sensitivity due to irreducible neutrino backgrounds. A survey of dark matter candidates predicted to fall within this mass range demonstrates that fully testing multiple well-motivated theories will require expanding the currently-funded generation of experiments down to and past the neutrino fog. We end with the status and plans for next-generation experiments and novel R&D concepts which will get us there. *corresponding author: [e-mail] †corresponding author: richard [e-mail] ‡corresponding author: [e-mail] §corresponding author: [e-mail] 1 ar X iv :2 20 3. 08 08 4v 1 [ he pex ] 1 5 M ar 2 02 2 Snowmass2021 Cosmic Frontier Dark Matter Direct Detection to the Neutrino Fog