Title

Present Results and Future Goals of the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

2-5-2002

Publisher

American Institute of Physics

Abstract

The Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS) uses Ge and Si detectors to search for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) via their elastic-scattering interaction with atomic nuclei. The present results from CDMS give limits on the spin-independent WIMP-nucleon elastic-scattering cross section that exclude previously unexplored parameter space above 10 GeV/c2. The second phase of the CDMS experiment, scheduled to start in January 2002, is expected to improve on the present sensitivity by more than two orders of magnitude.

Editor

F. Scott Porter
Dan McCammon
Massimiliano Galeazzi
Caroline K. Stahle

Comments

Copyright © 2002 American Institute of Physics Publishing. Reprinted with permission.

Low Temperature Detectors: Ninth International Workshop on Low Temperature Detectors (Madison, Wisconsin, July 2001)

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