TY - GEN
T1 - WIMP hunting with the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search
AU - Filippini, J.
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - The Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS) seeks to directly detect the scattering of weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter in an array of cryogenic particle detectors at Soudan Underground Laboratory. CDMS uses simultaneous measurements of ionization and phonons to discriminate between nuclear and electron recoils on an event-by-event basis. The most recent run of CDMS at Soudan accumulated 397.8 (53.5) kg-days of Ge (Si) exposure and observed no candidate events, setting the strongest limit to date on spin-independent WIMPnucleon interactions at WIMP masses ≳ 44GeV/c2. CDMS also sets competitive upper limits on various axion-like models. A data set sim; 2.5 × larger is currently under analysis, and prototype detectors for the larger-scale SuperCDMS experiment are currently acquiring data at Soudan.
AB - The Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS) seeks to directly detect the scattering of weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter in an array of cryogenic particle detectors at Soudan Underground Laboratory. CDMS uses simultaneous measurements of ionization and phonons to discriminate between nuclear and electron recoils on an event-by-event basis. The most recent run of CDMS at Soudan accumulated 397.8 (53.5) kg-days of Ge (Si) exposure and observed no candidate events, setting the strongest limit to date on spin-independent WIMPnucleon interactions at WIMP masses ≳ 44GeV/c2. CDMS also sets competitive upper limits on various axion-like models. A data set sim; 2.5 × larger is currently under analysis, and prototype detectors for the larger-scale SuperCDMS experiment are currently acquiring data at Soudan.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84881653328
SN - 9788874380534
T3 - Frascati Physics Series
SP - 45
EP - 52
BT - Les Rencontres de Physique de la Vallee d'Aoste
T2 - 23rd Rencontres de Physique de la Vallee d'Aoste: Results and Perspectives in Particle Physics - 23rd Physics Conferences in the Aosta Valley 2009
Y2 - 1 March 2009 through 7 March 2009
ER -