Speaker
Description
We describe the proposed Quantum Invisible Particle Sensor (QuIPS) experiment, an optomechanical laser trap surrounded by active pixel detectors, that would allow for searching for heavy sterile neutrino masses in the 100s of keV to few MeV regime via weak nuclear decays. The experimental setup uses CMOS sensors to measure the direction of a beta particle emitted from a trapped nanosphere, and a scintillating detector to reconstruct its energy. When combined with the momentum impulse imparted to the trapped nanosphere, read out at the standard quantum limit, the full momenta of the weak nuclear decay products may be reconstructed: thus allowing for probing heavy sterile neutrinos and other BSM physics. This talk will present designs, simulations, recent progress, and projected sensitivities.
