Orateur
Robert Smith
Description
The QUEST-DMC experiment uses a superfluid helium-3 target, cooled to less than 200 microkelvin, to search for interactions with sub-GeV mass dark matter candidates with recoil energies in the keV scale and below. Nanoelectromechanical resonators (NEMS) are submerged in the superfluid target and read out using low-noise quantum sensors to achieve the low energy thresholds required to probe this parameter space. This talk will outline the detector concept, current progress on the experiment and future prospects for sensitivity to dark matter interactions.
