Improved WIMP-search reach of the CDMS II germanium data

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作者
Agnese, R. [23 ]
Anderson, A. J. [5 ]
Asai, M. [9 ]
Balakishiyeva, D. [23 ]
Barker, D. [25 ]
Thakur, R. Basu [3 ,24 ]
Bauer, D. A. [3 ]
Billard, J. [5 ]
Borgland, A. [9 ]
Bowles, M. A. [13 ]
Brandt, D. [9 ]
Brink, P. L. [9 ]
Bunker, R. [10 ]
Cabrera, B. [12 ]
Caldwell, D. O. [20 ]
Calkins, R. [11 ]
Cerdeno, D. G. [2 ]
Chagani, H. [25 ]
Chen, Y. [13 ]
Cooley, J. [11 ]
Cornell, B. [1 ]
Crewdson, C. H. [7 ]
Cushman, P. [25 ]
Daal, M. [19 ]
Di Stefano, P. C. F. [7 ]
Doughty, T. [19 ]
Esteban, L. [16 ,17 ]
Fallows, S. [25 ]
Figueroa-Feliciano, E. [5 ]
Godfrey, G. L. [9 ]
Golwala, S. R. [1 ]
Hall, J. [6 ]
Harris, H. R. [14 ,15 ]
Hertel, S. A. [5 ]
Hofer, T. [25 ]
Holmgren, D. [3 ]
Hsu, L. [3 ]
Huber, M. E. [21 ]
Jardin, D. [11 ]
Jastram, A. [14 ,15 ]
Kamaev, O. [7 ]
Kara, B. [11 ]
Kelsey, M. H. [9 ]
Kennedy, A. [25 ]
Kiveni, M. [13 ]
Koch, K. [25 ]
Leder, A. [5 ]
Loer, B. [3 ]
Lopez Asamar, E. [16 ,17 ]
Lukens, P. [3 ]
机构
[1] CALTECH, Div Phys Math & Astron, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[2] Univ Durham, Dept Phys, Inst Particle Phys Phenomenol, Durham, England
[3] Fermilab Natl Accelerator Lab, Batavia, IL 60510 USA
[4] Univ Calif Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[5] MIT, Dept Phys, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
[6] Pacific NW Natl Lab, Richland, WA 99352 USA
[7] Queens Univ, Dept Phys, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada
[8] Santa Clara Univ, Dept Phys, Santa Clara, CA 95053 USA
[9] Kavli Inst Particle Astrophys & Cosmol, SLAC Natl Accelerator Lab, Menlo Pk, CA 94025 USA
[10] South Dakota Sch Mines & Technol, Dept Phys, Rapid City, SD 57701 USA
[11] So Methodist Univ, Dept Phys, Dallas, TX 75275 USA
[12] Stanford Univ, Dept Phys, Stanford, CA 94305 USA
[13] Syracuse Univ, Dept Phys, Syracuse, NY 13244 USA
[14] Texas A&M Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, College Stn, TX 77843 USA
[15] Texas A&M Univ, Mitchell Inst Fundamental Phys & Astron, College Stn, TX 77843 USA
[16] Univ Autonoma Madrid, Dept Fis Teor, E-28049 Madrid, Spain
[17] Univ Autonoma Madrid, Inst Fis Teor UAM CSIC, E-28049 Madrid, Spain
[18] Univ British Columbia, Dept Phys & Astron, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, Canada
[19] Univ Calif Berkeley, Dept Phys, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[20] Univ Calif Santa Barbara, Dept Phys, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA
[21] Univ Colorado, Dept Phys, Denver, CO 80217 USA
[22] Univ Evansville, Dept Phys, Evansville, IN 47722 USA
[23] Univ Florida, Dept Phys, Gainesville, FL 32611 USA
[24] Univ Illinois, Dept Phys, Urbana, IL 61801 USA
[25] Univ Minnesota, Sch Phys & Astron, Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA
[26] Univ S Dakota, Dept Phys, Vermillion, SD 57069 USA
来源
PHYSICAL REVIEW D | 2015年 / 92卷 / 07期
基金
美国国家科学基金会; 美国能源部;
关键词
HUBBLE-SPACE-TELESCOPE; DARK-MATTER; ROTATION CURVES; MASS; CONSTRAINTS; IONIZATION; DYNAMICS; REDSHIFT; NUCLEAR; PROOF;
D O I
10.1103/PhysRevD.92.072003
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
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 similar to 5 keV, to increase sensitivity near a WIMP mass of 8 GeV/c(2). 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 x 10(-44) and 1.18 x 10(-41) at 90% confidence for 60 and 8.6 GeV/c(2) WIMPs, respectively. This improves the previous CDMS II result by a factor of 2.4 (2.7) for 60 (8.6) GeV/c(2) WIMPs.
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