A Low Nuclear Recoil Energy Threshold for Dark Matter Search with CRESST-III Detectors
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Mancuso, M.
Angloher, G.
Bauer, P.
Bento, A.
Bucci, C.
D’Addabbo, A.
Defay, X.
Erb, A.
von Feilitzsch, Franz
Ferreiro Iachellini, N.
Date Issued
May 2018
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Journal of Low Temperature Physics
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Springer-Verlag
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Mancuso, M. et al. “A Low Nuclear Recoil Energy Threshold for Dark Matter Search with CRESST-III Detectors.” Journal of Low Temperature Physics (May 2018): 1-8 © 2018 The Author(s)
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Abstract
The CRESST-III experiment (Cryogenic Rare Events Search with Superconducting Thermometers), located at the underground facility Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Italy, uses scintillating CaWO₄ crystals as cryogenic calorimeters to search for direct dark matter interactions in detectors. A large part of the parameter space for spin-independent scattering off nuclei remains untested for dark matter particles with masses below a few GeV/c², despite many naturally motivated theoretical models for light dark matter particles. The CRESST-III detectors are designed to achieve the performance required to probe the low-mass region of the parameter space with a sensitivity never reached before. In this paper, new results on the performance and an overview of the CRESST-III detectors will be presented, emphasizing the results about the low-energy threshold for nuclear recoil of CRESST-III Phase 1 which started collecting data in August 2016. Keywords: Cryogenic detectors; Dark matter; Rare-event searches
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s10909-018-1948-6
