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From Dark Matter to Brittle Fracture

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Fracture, Fatigue, Failure and Damage Evolution, Volume 8

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Prompted by the intriguing results obtained by some of the rare-event searches looking for the dark matter that may make up the bulk of the matter in the Universe, we have studied brittle fracture as a background in scintillation detectors. Under conditions of ambient temperature and pressure, we have demonstrated a correlation between fracture, acoustic emission, and emission of light in several common scintillators. We present early results from an improved setup. When commissioned, it will provide additional channels to study these phenomena, in controllable atmospheres.

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  1. Department of Physics, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada, K7L 3N6

    P. C. F. Di Stefano, C. Bouard, S. Deschanel, A. Tantot, L. Vanel & N. Zaïm

  2. Institut Lumière Matière, UMR5306 Université Lyon 1-CNRS, Université de Lyon, Villeurbanne Cedex, F-69622, France

    O. Ramos

  3. Laboratoire de Physique, Université de Lyon, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR 5672, 46 Allée d’Italie, Lyon Cedex 07, F-69364, France

    S. Ciliberto & S. Santucci

  4. MATEIS, UMR 5510 CNRS and INSA-Lyon, Université de Lyon, Villeurbanne, F-69621, France

    S. Deschanel

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Di Stefano, P.C.F. et al. (2016). From Dark Matter to Brittle Fracture. In: Beese, A., Zehnder, A., Xia, S. (eds) Fracture, Fatigue, Failure and Damage Evolution, Volume 8. Conference Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Mechanics Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21611-9_23

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