CDMS, supersymmetry and extra dimensions Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • The CDMS experiment aims to directly detect massive, cold dark matter particles originating from the Milky Way halo. Charge and lattice excitations are detected after a particle scatters in a Ge or Si crystal kept at 30 mK, allowing to separate nuclear recoils from the dominating electromagnetic background. The operation of 12 detectors in the Soudan mine for 75 live days in 2004 delivered no evidence for a signal, yielding stringent limits on dark matter candidates from supersymmetry and universal extra dimensions. Thirty Ge and Si detectors are presently installed in the Soudan cryostat, and operating at base temperature. The run scheduled to start in 2006 is expected to yield a one order of magnitude increase in dark matter sensitivity. 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

published proceedings

  • NUCLEAR PHYSICS B-PROCEEDINGS SUPPLEMENTS

author list (cited authors)

  • Akerib, D. S., Attisha, M. J., Bailey, C. N., Baudis, L., Bauer, D. A., Brink, P. L., ... Young, B. A.

citation count

  • 0

complete list of authors

  • Akerib, DS||Attisha, MJ||Bailey, CN||Baudis, L||Bauer, DA||Brink, PL||Brusov, PP||Bunker, R||Cabrera, B||Caldwell, DO||Chang, CL||Cooley, J||Crisler, MB||Cushmang, P||Daal, M||Dixon, R||Dragowsky, MR||Driscoll, DD||Duong, L||Ferril, R||Filippini, J||Gaitskell, RJ||Golwala, SR||Grant, DR||Hennings-Yeomans, R||Holmgren, D||Huber, ME||Kamat, S||Leclercq, S||Lu, A||Mahapatra, R||Mandic, V||Meunier, P||Mirabolfathi, N||Nelson, H||Nelson, R||Ogburn, RW||Perera, TA||Pyle, M||Ramberg, E||Rau, W||Reisetter, A||Ross, RR||Saab, T||Sadoulet, B||Sander, J||Savage, C||Schnee, RW||Seitz, DN||Serfass, B||Sundqvist, KM||Thompson, J-PF||Wang, G||Yellin, S||Yoo, J||Young, BA

publication date

  • January 2007