New Results from the Search for Low-Mass Weakly Interacting Massive Particles with the CDMS Low Ionization Threshold Experiment

New Results from the Search for Low-Mass Weakly Interacting Massive Particles with the CDMS Low Ionization Threshold Experiment

The CDMS low ionization threshold experiment (CDMSlite) uses cryogenic germanium detectors operated at a relatively high bias voltage to amplify the phonon signal in the search for weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs). Results are presented from the second CDMSlite run with an exposure of 70...

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Main Authors: Agnese, R., Anderson, A. J., Aramaki, T., Asai, M., Baker, W., Balakishiyeva, D., Barker, D., Basu Thakur, R., Bauer, D. A., Borgland, A., Bowles, M. A., Brink, P. L., Bunker, R., Cabrera, B., Caldwell, D. O., Calkins, R., Cerdeno, D. G., Chagani, H., Chen, Y., Cooley, J., Cornell, B., Cushman, P., Daal, M., Di Stefano, P. C. F., Doughty, T., Esteban, L., Fallows, S., Figueroa-Feliciano, E., Ghaith, M., Godfrey, G. L., Golwala, S. R., Hall, J., Harris, H. R., Hofer, T., Holmgren, D., Hsu, L., Huber, M. E., Jardin, D., Jastram, A., Kamaev, O., Kara, B., Kelsey, M. H., Kennedy, A., Loer, B., Lopez Asamar, E., Lukens, P., Mahapatra, R., Mandic, V., Mast, N., Mirabolfathi, N., Moffatt, R. A., Morales Mendoza, J. D., Oser, S. M., Page, K., Page, W. A., Partridge, R., Pepin, M., Phipps, A., Prasad, K., Pyle, M., Qiu, H., Rau, W., Redl, P., Reisetter, A., Ricci, Y., Roberts, A., Rogers, H. E., Saab, T., Sadoulet, B., Sander, J., Schneck, K., Schnee, R. W., Scorza, S., Serfass, B., Shank, B., Speller, D., Toback, D., Underwood, R., Upadhyayula, S., Villano, A. N., Welliver, B., Wilson, J. S., Wright, D. H., Yellin, S., Yen, J. J., Young, B. A., Zhang, J., Billard, Julien, Leder, Alexander Friedrich
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/101208
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1429-1104
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Summary:The CDMS low ionization threshold experiment (CDMSlite) uses cryogenic germanium detectors operated at a relatively high bias voltage to amplify the phonon signal in the search for weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs). Results are presented from the second CDMSlite run with an exposure of 70 kg day, which reached an energy threshold for electron recoils as low as 56 eV. A fiducialization cut reduces backgrounds below those previously reported by CDMSlite. New parameter space for the WIMP-nucleon spin-independent cross section is excluded for WIMP masses between 1.6 and 5.5  GeV/c[superscript 2].

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