Search for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles with the First Five-Tower Data from the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search at the Soudan Underground Laboratory
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- 5 January 2009
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 102 (1) , 011301
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.102.011301
Abstract
We report results from the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search at the Soudan Underground Laboratory (CDMS II) featuring the full complement of 30 detectors. A blind analysis of data taken between October 2006 and July 2007 sets an upper limit on the weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) nucleon spin-independent cross section of ( when combined with previous CDMS II data) at the 90% confidence level for a WIMP mass of . This achieves the best sensitivity for dark matter WIMPs with masses above , and significantly restricts the parameter space for some favored supersymmetric models.
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