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Published January 31, 2014 | Published + Submitted
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Search for Low-Mass Weakly Interacting Massive Particles Using Voltage-Assisted Calorimetric Ionization Detection in the SuperCDMS Experiment

Abstract

SuperCDMS is an experiment designed to directly detect weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), a favored candidate for dark matter ubiquitous in the Universe. In this Letter, we present WIMP-search results using a calorimetric technique we call CDMSlite, which relies on voltage-assisted Luke-Neganov amplification of the ionization energy deposited by particle interactions. The data were collected with a single 0.6 kg germanium detector running for ten live days at the Soudan Underground Laboratory. A low energy threshold of 170  eV_ee (electron equivalent) was obtained, which allows us to constrain new WIMP-nucleon spin-independent parameter space for WIMP masses below 6  GeV/c^2.

Additional Information

© 2014 American Physical Society. Received 3 October 2013; published 27 January 2014. The SuperCDMS collaboration gratefully acknowledges Sten Hansen (PPD, Fermilab), and technical assistance from Jim Beaty and the staff of the Soudan Underground Laboratory and the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. The iZIP detectors are fabricated in the Stanford Nanofabrication Facility, which is a member of the National Nanofabrication Infrastructure Network sponsored and supported by the National Science Foundation. Part of the research described in this Letter was conducted under the Ultra Sensitive Nuclear Measurements Initiative at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, which is operated by Battelle for the U.S. Department of Energy. Funding and support were received from the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, a Fermilab URA Visiting Scholar Award, NSERC Canada, and MULTIDARK. Fermilab is operated by the Fermi Research Alliance, LLC under Contract No. De-AC02-07CH11359. SLAC is operated under Contract No. DEAC02-76SF00515 with the United States Department of Energy.

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