The unbearable lightness of being: CDMS versus XENON

The CDMS-II collaboration has reported 3 events in a Si detector, which are consistent with being nuclear recoils due to scattering of Galactic dark matter particles with a mass of about 8.6 GeV and a cross-section on neutrons of about 2 x 10^-41 cm^2. While a previous result from the XENON10 experi...

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Main Authors: Frandsen, M, Kahlhoefer, F, McCabe, C, Sarkar, S, Schmidt-Hoberg, K
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2013