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Search for Low-Mass Weakly Interacting Massive Particles Using Voltage-Assisted Calorimetric Ionization Detection in the SuperCDMS Experiment

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Anderson, Adam Jonathan; Billard, Julien; Figueroa-Feliciano, Enectali; Hertel, Scott Alexander; McCarthy, Kevin Ahmad
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Abstract
SuperCDMS is an experiment designed to directly detect weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), a favored candidate for dark matter ubiquitous in the Universe. In this Letter, we present WIMP-search results using a calorimetric technique we call CDMSlite, which relies on voltage-assisted Luke-Neganov amplification of the ionization energy deposited by particle interactions. The data were collected with a single 0.6 kg germanium detector running for ten live days at the Soudan Underground Laboratory. A low energy threshold of 170  eV[subscript ee] (electron equivalent) was obtained, which allows us to constrain new WIMP-nucleon spin-independent parameter space for WIMP masses below 6  GeV/c[superscript 2].
Date issued
2014-01
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/87748
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics; MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
Journal
Physical Review Letters
Publisher
American Physical Society
Citation
Agnese, R., A. J. Anderson, M. Asai, D. Balakishiyeva, R. Basu Thakur, D. A. Bauer, J. Billard, et al. “Search for Low-Mass Weakly Interacting Massive Particles Using Voltage-Assisted Calorimetric Ionization Detection in the SuperCDMS Experiment.” Physical Review Letters 112, no. 4 (January 2014). © 2014 American Physical Society
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0031-9007
1079-7114

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