Dark matter direct detection with SuperCDMS Soudan
Creators
- 1. 333 LeConte Hall, Department of Physics, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 94720 (United States)
Description
The Cryogenic Dark Matter Search Experiment (CDMS) and its successor, SuperCDMS, have had a long history of establishing world-leading upper limits on the interaction of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) with standard model nucleons. SuperCDMS uses arrays of cryogenic germanium detectors to achieve excellent discrimination between the nuclear recoils expected for WIMP interactions and radioactively produced electron recoils through the collection of ionization and athermal phonons. Recent analyses of the data collected from the current installation of Interleaved Z-Sensitive Ionization and Phonon (iZIP) detectors have probed new regions of the WIMP parameter space, particularly in the region of low-mass WIMP interactions. This paper will discuss the current work of the SuperCDMS collaboration. (paper)
Availability note (English)
Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/606/1/012003Additional details
Identifiers
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Journal of Physics. Conference Series (Online)
- Journal Volume
- 606
- Journal Issue
- 1
- Journal Page Range
- [9 p.]
- ISSN
- 1742-6596
Conference
- Title
- 2. workshop on Germanium detectors and technologies
- Dates
- 14-17 Sep 2014
- Place
- Vermillion, SD (United States)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United Kingdom
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 47120879
- Subject category
- S46: INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- ELECTRONS; GE SEMICONDUCTOR DETECTORS; IONIZATION; NONLUMINOUS MATTER; NUCLEONS; PARTICLE DISCRIMINATION; PHONONS; PROBES; RECOILS; STANDARD MODEL; WIMPS
- Descriptors DEC
- BARYONS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FERMIONS; FIELD THEORIES; GRAND UNIFIED THEORY; HADRONS; LEPTONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATTER; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; PARTICLE IDENTIFICATION; PARTICLE MODELS; POSTULATED PARTICLES; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; QUASI PARTICLES; RADIATION DETECTORS; SEMICONDUCTOR DETECTORS; UNIFIED GAUGE MODELS
Optional Information
- Collaborations
- SuperCDMS Collaboration