Installation and commissioning of the CDMSII experiment at Soudan
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
3-11-2004
Publisher
Elsevier
Abstract
In the past year and a half, the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS) collaboration has been active at the Soudan mine in installing a system for running ZIP detectors that will be used to search for dark matter in the form of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles. Presently, there is an operating cryogenic system, working electronics, a functional data acquisition and analysis system, passive shielding, an active muon veto, and 12 ZIP detectors. Six of the 12 ZIP detectors have been tested in situ and are fully operational with acceptable noise profiles. CDMS is in the process of commissioning the experiment and expects to be making a background measurement by the end of summer 2003.
Recommended Citation
Akerib, D. S., Alvaro-Dean, J., Armel, M. S., Attisha, M. J., Baudis, L., Bauer, D. A., Bolozdynya, A. I., Brink, P. L., Bunker, R., Cabrera, B., Caldwell, D. O., Castle, J. P., Chang, C. L., Clarke, R. M., Crisler, M. B., Cushman, P., Davies, A. K., Dixon, R., Driscoll, D. D., … Young, B. A. (2004). Installation and commissioning of the CDMSII experiment at Soudan. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 520(1), 116–119. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2003.11.256
Comments
LTD-10, 10th International Workshop on Low Temperature Detectors, Genoa, Italy 7-11 July 2003