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This proceedings argues that minerals preserve nuclear-recoil damage for geological timescales, so a gram of ancient rock carries the exposure of a 10-kiloton live detector.

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A workshop proceedings presenting 20 status reports on mineral detectors as passive, long-exposure nuclear recoil detectors for dark matter, neutrinos, and cosmic rays.

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arxiv 2508.20482 v1 pith:27AX33IH submitted 2025-08-28 physics.ins-det astro-ph.COastro-ph.IMhep-exhep-ph

Mineral Detection of Neutrinos and Dark Matter 2025 Proceedings

Shigenobu Hirose , Patrick Stengel , Natsue Abe , Daniel Ang , Lorenzo Apollonio , Gabriela R. Araujo , Yoshihiro Asahara , Laura Baudis
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Pranshu Bhaumik Nathaniel Bowden Joseph Bramante Lorenzo Caccianiga Mason Camp Qing Chang Jordan Chapman Reza Ebadi Alexey Elykov Anna Erickson Valentin Fondement Katherine Freese Shota Futamura Claudio Galelli Andrew Gilpin Takeshi Hanyu Noriko Hasebe Adam A. Hecht Samuel C. Hedges Shunsaku Horiuchi Yasushi Hoshino Patrick Huber Yuki Ido Yohei Igami Yuto Iinuma Vsevolod Ivanov Igor Jovanovic Ayuki Kamada Takashi Kamiyama Takenori Kato Yoji Kawamura Giti A. Khodaparast Yui Kouketsu Yukiko Kozaka Emilie M. LaVoie-Ingram Matthew Leybourne Gavishta Liyanage Brenden A. Magill Paolo Magnani William F. McDonough Katsuyoshi Michibayashi Naoki Mizutani Kohta Murase Tatsuhiro Naka Taiki Nakashima Kenji Oguni Mariano Guerrero Perez Noriaki Sakurai Lukas Scherne Maximilian Shen Joshua Spitz Kai Sun Katsuhiko Suzuki Koichi Takamiya Jiashen Tang Erwin H. Tanin Ethan Todd Atsuhiro Umemoto Keegan Walkup Ronald Walsworth Alexis M. Willson Norihiro Yamada Seiko Yamasaki Wen Yin Akihiko Yokoyama
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The reading

These proceedings argue that minerals can act as passive particle detectors that record nuclear recoils for geological timescales. Because a gram of mineral exposed for a billion years accumulates as much exposure as a 10-kiloton live detector running for a decade, even small ancient samples could reveal rare interactions of dark matter, astrophysical neutrinos, cosmic rays, and heavy exotic particles. The same readout technology could enable laboratory-scale detectors for reactor neutrinos and directional dark-matter searches. The field's central obstacle is not the physics of track formation but the efficient readout of nanometre-scale tracks from large mineral volumes; the contributions report progress toward etching-based, light-sheet fluorescence, and X-ray/electron microscopy approaches. If that readout matures, a series of mineral samples of different ages could map how galactic fluxes changed over Earth's history.

Core claim

The central claim of these proceedings is that mineral detectors—synthetic or natural crystals that preserve the damage left by nuclear recoils—can extend particle detection to timescales no live experiment can reach. A recoiling nucleus leaves a linear trail of lattice defects, nanometers wide and up to millimeters long; in minerals such as mica, olivine, quartz, halite, diamond, and lithium fluoride these trails can survive for hundreds of millions to billions of years. Reading out those trails with emerging imaging techniques would make a 1 g, 1 Gyr sample equivalent in exposure to a 10 kt live detector operating for 10 years. The proceedings compile the first experimental steps: white-li

What carries the argument

The load-bearing object is the nuclear recoil damage track: a nanometre-wide linear defect structure left when an incoming neutrino, dark-matter particle, or neutron knocks a nucleus out of its lattice site. In a suitable mineral the track is preserved over geological time and can be enlarged by chemical etching or made visible through optically active defects, such as nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond and F-aggregate centers in LiF. The argument runs on the equivalence between long passive exposure and enormous live-detector exposure, plus the readout techniques that convert stored tracks into countable data: high-speed optical profilers for etched mica, light-sheet fluorescence microscop

Load-bearing premise

The whole program rests on the assumption that nanometre-scale damage tracks can be read out efficiently from gram-scale volumes of mineral; no current technique demonstrates that combination of resolution, speed, and background rejection.

What would settle it

In the PRImuS scenario, a 10 g halite sample formed during the Messinian Salinity Crisis is predicted to contain a muon-induced track population orders of magnitude above all backgrounds; imaging such a sample and finding no excess, or an excess that does not match the predicted track-length spectrum, would refute the paleo-detector sensitivity claim. More generally, a surrogate neutron-irradiated crystal whose recoil energy is known must yield tracks of the predicted length and density at the claimed readout resolution.

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If this is right

  • A 1 g mineral sample aged about a billion years provides exposure equal to a 10 kt live detector running 10 years, so paleo-detectors could reach dark-matter and neutrino sensitivities beyond current experiments.
  • Mineral detectors can be directional: the orientation and length of a recoil track encode the incoming particle's direction and energy, enabling separation of a dark-matter signal from the solar-neutrino background.
  • A series of mineral samples of different ages could measure how solar, supernova, and atmospheric neutrino fluxes, and the cosmic-ray flux, have changed over Earth's history.
  • Readouts demonstrated in the proceedings—etched mica with optical profiling, color centers in LiF, NV centers in diamond, and X-ray/electron microscopy of quartz and olivine—put laboratory-scale reactor-neutrino and dark-matter detectors within reach.
  • Trace U/Th measurements in candidate minerals show that sample radiopurity is measurable and variable, allowing background budgets to be set for proposed paleo-detectors.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • If any single readout technique achieves the target combination of nanometre resolution, gram-scale volume, and hours-scale scanning, the same platform could serve both reactor-neutrino monitoring and paleo-detection, letting one calibration program validate both applications.
  • The directional information in fossil tracks could act as a paleo-telescope, reconstructing the arrival direction of a transient event such as a cosmic-wall passage or nearby supernova; the proceedings hint at this for walls but do not develop it as a general tool.
  • The wide U/Th variability reported for olivine—sub-ng/g to tens of ng/g—suggests that sample selection and geological history, rather than detector physics, may set the practical background floor for early paleo-detectors.
  • Assuming the roughly 50 cm^2/h scan speed projected for the fast optical scanning system, scanning about 500 cm^2 of mica—the area needed to reach monopole/Q-ball flux limits near 10^-20 cm^-2 s^-1 sr^-1—would take on the order of 10 hours, a concrete near-term milestone implied by the paper's numbers.
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Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

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Summary. This proceedings compiles 20 short contributions from the MDνDM'25 workshop held at JAMSTEC/Yokohama in May 2025. The overarching claim is that mineral detectors, which record nuclear-recoil damage tracks over laboratory or geological timescales, could serve as reactor-neutrino monitors, directional dark-matter detectors, and paleo-detectors for astrophysical neutrinos, cosmic rays, and exotic heavy particles. Individual contributions report preliminary progress on mica etching with white-light interferometry (DMICA), NV-center track imaging in diamond with light-sheet quantum diamond microscopy, LiF color-center imaging with mesoSPIM (PALEOCCENE), TEM/TXM imaging of quartz and olivine, ICP-MS radiopurity measurements, neutron-irradiation calibration, and several phenomenological proposals (Q-balls, cosmic walls, supernova neutrinos). The volume is explicitly framed around a central obstacle, stated in the Preface: efficient readout of nanoscale damage tracks from large mineral volumes. No contribution in these proceedings demonstrates a single instrument that simultaneously achieves nanometer-scale resolution, gram-scale volumetric throughput, and controlled background rejection.

Significance. If the readout obstacle is overcome, the paleo-detector program would open a genuinely new exposure regime: a 1 g sample with a 1 Gyr integration time is equivalent, in exposure bookkeeping, to a 10 kt live detector running for 10 years, and it would enable directional dark-matter detection and time-resolved astroparticle measurements over geological history. The proceedings is honest about the preliminary status of most results and contains falsifiable projections, such as the Messinian halite cosmic-ray signal (Sec. 3) and the supernova-neutrino track-length window (Sec. 16). It also usefully collects calibration, background, and microscopy results that are otherwise scattered. However, the paper does not establish the central enabling technology; its value is as a community status report and road map, not as a demonstration of paleo-detector sensitivity. The headline sensitivity claims must therefore be read as conditional on readout capabilities that remain to be shown.

major comments (4)
  1. [Sec. 14.1, 14.4] The statement that 'a 1 gram paleo-detector dated at 1 billion years old could offer the same exposure as a 10 kiloton live direct detection experiment operating for 10 years' is exposure bookkeeping, not a demonstrated sensitivity. It implicitly assumes unit-efficiency readout of every signal track and negligible readout background. The authors' own TXM proof-of-concept (Sec. 14.4) resolved FIB-milled tracks with radii of about 100 nm but could not resolve ion tracks with radii of about 3 nm, and the planned 15-nm voxel TXM is still coarse compared with a 3-nm track. TEM provides the needed resolution, but Sec. 14.4 notes that hours of TEM imaging cover only nanograms. Thus the projection in Sec. 14.1 rests on a readout capability that no reported instrument currently meets; this should be stated explicitly and the projections re-scoped or clearly conditioned on that capability.
  2. [Sec. 17.2] The PALEOCCENE contribution reports sensitivity to 'single digit numbers of color centers per voxel' and lists 'detect single color centers' as a planned hardware improvement, not a demonstrated capability. Since the technique's event sensitivity ultimately depends on reaching single-color-center readout with an acceptable false-positive rate, the statement that scan times of hours per cubic centimeter will provide 'single event sensitivity' is not supported by the presented data. In addition, the track-length histogram in Fig. 17.1(b) is compared with simulation only qualitatively; a quantitative goodness-of-fit or uncertainty estimate should be provided.
  3. [Sec. 6.2, 6.4] The diamond NV-track results are useful but preliminary: the 17(5) NV yield per 800 keV ion comes from about 300 sites, and the simulation validation is explicitly ongoing. The LS-QDM currently has a 9-µm light sheet and requires about 1-µm sheets for timely DM-track detection. These are milestones toward a directional detector, but they do not demonstrate readout of 3-nm-scale tracks in mm-scale diamond. The text should avoid implying that track detection in bulk diamond has already been achieved.
  4. [Sec. 7, Table 2] The ICP-MS U and Th concentrations in Table 2 are presented without measurement uncertainties, detection limits, blank values, or replicate information. The discussion concludes that pallasite olivine and the Minas Gerais muscovite are 'promising candidates for low-background dark matter detection' based on these numbers. Without uncertainties, this radiopurity claim is not yet quantitative. At minimum, approximate uncertainties and the analytical blank should be reported.
minor comments (5)
  1. [Sec. 4.2, Fig. 4.1] The axis labels in Fig. 4.1 appear garbled (e.g., '160 27"M284J 39'), and the caption does not define the plotted quantities or the meaning of the shaded region. Please fix the figure and caption.
  2. [Sec. 13.2, 13.5] Sec. 13.2 uses inconsistent flux units ('10−16cm−1sec−1sr−1' versus 'cm−2 s−1 sr−1' elsewhere), and Sec. 13.5 says 'yellow allow' instead of 'yellow arrows.'
  3. [Sec. 8.3] The estimated recoil rate of 7×10^6 hr−1 in the [0,5 keV] range for LiF should state whether this is the total rate over all angles or a specific solid-angle acceptance, since the 7Li(p,n) reaction is strongly angle-dependent.
  4. [Sec. 14.3] The GitHub link for the paleo-background simulation workflow is welcome; for reproducibility, consider archiving a versioned release on Zenodo or a similar service.
  5. [Sec. 16] The forecast that supernova-neutrino tracks can be detected in 100 g of epsomite with 238U concentration of 10−11 g/g would be more useful with the assumed track-length binning, readout efficiency, and background rejection stated explicitly.

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity found: the proceedings are a progress report with external calibrations and explicitly stated technological caveats.

full rationale

The volume is a collection of workshop progress reports rather than a derivation chain that reduces predictions to fitted inputs. The load-bearing experimental quantities are benchmarked against external data: DMICA's pit-depth-to-recoil-energy relation is taken from ion-irradiation experiments by Snowden-Ifft and Chan (Ref. [38]) and the bulk etch rate is compared with the independent direct measurement of Freeman and Snowden-Ifft (Ref. [39]); KIT validates its Geant4/TRIM track-length simulations against experimental alpha-track data digitized from Ref. [113]; PALEOCCENE validates its first-principles color-center calculations against LiF measurements (Ref. [112]) and compares imaged track morphology to SRIM simulations; the ICP-MS uranium/thorium measurements are checked against the GSJ reference sample JB-1 with recommended values from Imai et al. (Ref. [109]). The projected paleo-detector sensitivities, such as the 1 g, 1 Gyr exposure equivalence in Sec. 14.1, are explicitly conditional ('With the right characterization, background subtraction, and imaging technique') and are not presented as demonstrated measurements. The enabling-readout assumption is openly identified in the Preface as 'the longstanding central obstacle: the efficient readout of nano-scale damage tracks from large volumes of mineral,' and Sec. 14.4 candidly reports that current TXM could not resolve 3-nm ion tracks while TEM throughput is limited to nanograms. Self-citations of the community whitepaper [16] and prior proceedings [17] are used for background and meeting context, but they are not load-bearing in any calculation that is claimed to be a new prediction. No equation or fitted parameter is renamed as a prediction, and no uniqueness or ansatz is imported solely from the authors' prior work. The main scientific risk—unproven bulk nanoscale readout—is a technological feasibility limitation rather than a circularity.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

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The proceedings introduces no new free parameters fitted to data and no new hypothetical entities. The central claims rest on four domain assumptions about track retention, simulation fidelity, DFT-based screening, and geological reconstruction, most of which are stated explicitly inside the contributions. None of these assumptions is machine-checked or independently reproduced within this volume; each is a reasonable but partially validated premise of the paleo-detector program.

axioms (4)
  • domain assumption Nuclear recoil tracks in minerals are preserved over geological timescales and can be amplified or imaged (e.g., by etching, fluorescence, or electron microscopy).
    Foundational to the field; stated in the Preface and used in Secs. 1.1, 5.1, 10, 14.1. Evidence is partial: track retention has been demonstrated for fission and alpha-recoil tracks, but gigayear stability of low-energy nuclear recoil tracks (the DM signal) in natural samples is not directly proven.
  • domain assumption SRIM/TRIM and GEANT4 simulations accurately predict vacancy distributions and track ranges for the relevant ions and energies.
    Relied on in Secs. 6.3, 8, 11, 13.5, 14.3. KIT validates against alpha-source track lengths in LiF (Sec. 11.2), but low-energy recoils (keV scale) relevant for WIMPs are not validated.
  • domain assumption A hybrid functional (HSE06) matched to the experimental band gap predicts the optical properties of color centers well enough to screen minerals.
    Sec. 9 uses this approach, benchmarked only against LiF defect measurements [112]. Used to rank ZrSiO4 and MgSiO4 as promising PALEOCCENE materials.
  • domain assumption The geological history of candidate samples (burial depth, thermal history, exposure window) can be reconstructed well enough to model backgrounds.
    Sec. 5.2 explicitly concedes 'we do not have quantitative constraints on the depth of burial versus time' yet assumes a standard geotherm for the komatiite proposal; Sec. 14.2 calls for fission-track dating but does not apply it. The PRImuS Messinian halite scenario (Sec. 3) is the exception with a well-constrained exposure window.

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  author       = {Pith},
  title        = {Pith review of: Mineral Detection of Neutrinos and Dark Matter 2025 Proceedings},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://pith.science/paper/27AX33IH}},
  note         = {Machine review of arXiv:2508.20482}
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The third ``Mineral Detection of Neutrinos and Dark Matter'' (MD$\nu$DM'25) meeting was held May 20-23, 2025 in Yokohama, Japan, hosted by the Yokohama Institute for Earth Sciences, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC). These proceedings compile contributions from the workshop and update the progress of mineral detector research. MD$\nu$DM'25 was the third such meeting, following the first in October of 2022 held at the IFPU in Trieste, Italy and the second in January of 2024 hosted by the Center for Neutrino Physics at Virginia Tech in Arlington, USA. Mineral detectors record and retain damage induced by nuclear recoils in synthetic or natural mineral samples. The damage features can then be read out by a variety of nano- and micro-scale imaging techniques. Applications of mineral detectors on timescales relevant for laboratory experiments include reactor neutrino monitoring and dark matter detection, with the potential to measure the directions as well as the energies of the induced nuclear recoils. For natural mineral detectors which record nuclear recoils over geological timescales, reading out even small mineral samples could be sensitive to rare interactions induced by astrophysical neutrinos, cosmic rays, dark matter and heavy exotic particles. A series of mineral detectors of different ages could measure the time evolution of these fluxes, offering a unique window into the history of our solar system and the Milky Way. Mineral detector research is highly multidisciplinary, incorporating aspects of high energy physics, condensed matter physics, materials science, geoscience, and AI/ML for data analysis. Although realizing the scientific potential of mineral detectors poses many challenges, the MD$\nu$DM community looks forward to the continued development of mineral detector experiments and the possible discoveries that mineral detectors could reveal.

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