Silicon detector results from the first five-tower run of CDMS II Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • We report results of a search for weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) with the Si detectors of the CDMS II experiment. This report describes a blind analysis of the first data taken with CDMS II's full complement of detectors in 2006-2007; results from this exposure using the Ge detectors have already been presented. We observed no candidate WIMP-scattering events in an exposure of 55.9 kg-days before analysis cuts, with an expected background of 1.1 events. The exposure of this analysis is equivalent to 10.3 kg-days over a recoil energy range of 7-100 keV for an ideal Si detector and a WIMP mass of 10 GeV/c2. These data set an upper limit of 1.710-41 cm2 on the WIMP-nucleon spin-independent cross section of a 10 GeV/c2 WIMP. These data exclude parameter space for spin-independent WIMP-nucleon elastic scattering that is relevant to recent searches for low-mass WIMPs. 2013 American Physical Society.

published proceedings

  • PHYSICAL REVIEW D

altmetric score

  • 52

author list (cited authors)

  • Agnese, R., Ahmed, Z., Anderson, A. J., Arrenberg, S., Balakishiyeva, D., Thakur, R. B., ... Zhang, J.

citation count

  • 47

complete list of authors

  • Agnese, R||Ahmed, Z||Anderson, AJ||Arrenberg, S||Balakishiyeva, D||Thakur, R Basu||Bauer, DA||Borgland, A||Brandt, D||Brink, PL||Bruch, T||Bunker, R||Cabrera, B||Caldwell, DO||Cerdeno, DG||Chagani, H||Cooley, J||Cornell, B||Crewdson, CH||Cushman, P||Daal, M||Dejongh, F||Di Tefano, PCF||do Couto e Silva, E||Doughty, T||Esteban, L||Fallows, S||Figueroa-Feliciano, E||Filippini, J||Fox, J||Fritts, M||Godfrey, GL||Golwala, SR||Hall, J||Harris, RH||Hertel, SA||Hofer, T||Holmgren, D||Hsu, L||Huber, ME||Jastram, A||Kamaev, O||Kara, B||Kelsey, MH||Kennedy, A||Kim, P||Kiveni, M||Koch, K||Kos, M||Leman, SW||Lopez-Asamar, E||Mahapatra, R||Mandic, V||Martinez, C||McCarthy, KA||Mirabolfathi, N||Moffatt, RA||Moore, DC||Nadeau, P||Nelson, RH||Page, K||Partridge, R||Pepin, M||Phipps, A||Prasad, K||Pyle, M||Qiu, H||Rau, W||Redl, P||Reisetter, A||Ricci, Y||Saab, T||Sadoulet, B||Sander, J||Schneck, K||Schnee, RW||Scorza, S||Serfass, B||Shank, B||Speller, D||Sundqvist, KM||Villano, AN||Welliver, B||Wright, DH||Yellin, S||Yen, JJ||Yoo, J||Young, BA||Zhang, J

publication date

  • August 2013