| dc.contributor.author | Billard, Julien | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-06-16T22:03:51Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-06-16T22:03:51Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2013-12 | |
| dc.date.submitted | 2013-07 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0022-2291 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1573-7357 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/103136 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS) II uses crystals operated at milliKelvin temperature to search for dark matter. We present the details of the profile likelihood analysis of 140.2 kg-day exposure from the final data set of the CDMS II Si detectors that revealed three WIMP-candidate events. We found that this result favors a WIMP+background hypothesis over the known-background-only hypothesis at the 99.81 % confidence level. This paper is dedicated to the description of the profile likelihood analysis dedicated to the CDMSII-Si data and discusses such analysis techniques in the scope of rare event searches. | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | National Science Foundation (U.S.) | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | United States. Department of Energy | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Swiss National Science Foundation | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Multimessenger Approach for Dark Matter Detection | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Springer US | en_US |
| dc.relation.isversionof | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10909-013-1018-z | en_US |
| dc.rights | Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. | en_US |
| dc.source | Springer US | en_US |
| dc.title | Profile Likelihood Ratio Analysis Techniques for Rare Event Signals | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Billard, Julien. “Profile Likelihood Ratio Analysis Techniques for Rare Event Signals.” J Low Temp Phys 176, no. 5–6 (December 18, 2013): 966–972. | en_US |
| dc.contributor.department | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics | en_US |
| dc.contributor.mitauthor | Billard, Julien | en_US |
| dc.relation.journal | Journal of Low Temperature Physics | en_US |
| dc.eprint.version | Author's final manuscript | en_US |
| dc.type.uri | http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle | en_US |
| eprint.status | http://purl.org/eprint/status/PeerReviewed | en_US |
| dc.date.updated | 2016-05-23T12:14:51Z | |
| dc.language.rfc3066 | en | |
| dc.rights.holder | Springer Science+Business Media New York | |
| dspace.orderedauthors | Billard, Julien | en_US |
| dspace.embargo.terms | N | en |
| mit.license | PUBLISHER_POLICY | en_US |
