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Title: Improved WIMP-search reach of the CDMS II germanium data

Journal Article · · Physical Review. D, Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

CDMS II data from the five-tower runs at the Soudan Underground Laboratory were reprocessed with an improved charge-pulse fitting algorithm. Two new analysis techniques to reject surface-event backgrounds were applied to the 612 kg days germanium-detector weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP)-search exposure. An extended analysis was also completed by decreasing the 10 keV analysis threshold to ~5keV, to increase sensitivity near a WIMP mass of 8GeV/c2. After unblinding, there were zero candidate events above a deposited energy of 10 keV and six events in the lower-threshold analysis. This yielded minimum WIMP-nucleon spin-independent scattering cross-section limits of 1.8×10-44 and 1.18×10-41 at 90% confidence for 60 and 8.6GeV/c2 WIMPs, respectively. This improves the previous CDMS II result by a factor of 2.4 (2.7) for 60 (8.6)GeV/c2 WIMPs.

Research Organization:
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States); Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
Contributing Organization:
SuperCDMS Collaboration; SuperCDMS
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-76SF00515; AC02-07CH11359; AC05-76RL01830; AC02-05CH11231
OSTI ID:
1263389
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1212761; OSTI ID: 1224640; OSTI ID: 1226401; OSTI ID: 1454440
Report Number(s):
SLAC-PUB-16649; IPPP-15-24; DCTP-15-48; FERMILAB-PUB-15-173-AE; arXiv:1504.05871; PNNL-SA-110143; PRVDAQ; arXiv:1504.05871
Journal Information:
Physical Review. D, Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, Vol. 92, Issue 7; ISSN 1550-7998
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 56 works
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Web of Science

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