The Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS) experiment: Results and prospects Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) are a strong candidate for the Cold Dark Matter of the Universe. CDMS-II is a direct-search WIMP search experiment, operating at 50 mK and housed at the Soudan mine, Minnesota. The 250 gram Ge detectors utilize athermal phonon sensors where tungsten transition edge sensors are operated in negative electrothermal feedback. The search at Soudan is ongoing with an expected final reach of CDMS-II by the end of 2008 of a WIMP-nucleon cross-section sensitivity of 2.1 x10-44 cm 2, at a WIMP mass of 60 GeV/c2. To proceed further, we have proposed the SuperCDMS program. 2009 IOP Publishing Ltd.

published proceedings

  • 25TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LOW TEMPERATURE PHYSICS (LT25), PART 1

author list (cited authors)

  • Brink, P. L., Ahmed, Z., Akerib, D. S., Bailey, C. N., Bauer, D. A., Beaty, J., ... Young, B. A.

citation count

  • 4

complete list of authors

  • Brink, PL||Ahmed, Z||Akerib, DS||Bailey, CN||Bauer, DA||Beaty, J||Bunker, R||Burke, S||Cabrera, B||Caldwell, DO||Cooley, J||Cushman, P||DeJongh, F||Dragowsky, MR||Duong, L||Figueroa-Feliciano, E||Filippini, J||Fritts, M||Golwala, SR||Grant, DR||Hall, J||Hennings-Yeomans, R||Hertel, S||Holmgren, D||Huber, ME||Mahapatra, R||Mandic, V||McCarthy, KA||Mirabolfathi, N||Nelson, H||Novak, L||Ogburn, RW||Pyle, M||Qiu, X||Ramberg, E||Rau, W||Reisetter, A||Saab, T||Sadoulet, B||Sander, J||Schmitt, R||Schnee, RW||Seitz, DN||Serfass, B||Sirois, A||Sundqvist, KM||Tomada, A||Wang, G||Yellin, S||Yoo, J||Young, BA

publication date

  • January 2009