Search for low-mass weakly interacting massive particles with SuperCDMS.

نویسندگان

  • R Agnese
  • A J Anderson
  • M Asai
  • D Balakishiyeva
  • R Basu Thakur
  • D A Bauer
  • J Beaty
  • J Billard
  • A Borgland
  • M A Bowles
  • D Brandt
  • P L Brink
  • R Bunker
  • B Cabrera
  • D O Caldwell
  • D G Cerdeno
  • H Chagani
  • Y Chen
  • M Cherry
  • J Cooley
  • B Cornell
  • C H Crewdson
  • P Cushman
  • M Daal
  • D DeVaney
  • P C F Di Stefano
  • E Do Couto E Silva
  • T Doughty
  • L Esteban
  • S Fallows
  • E Figueroa-Feliciano
  • G L Godfrey
  • S R Golwala
  • J Hall
  • S Hansen
  • H R Harris
  • S A Hertel
  • B A Hines
  • T Hofer
  • D Holmgren
  • L Hsu
  • M E Huber
  • A Jastram
  • O Kamaev
  • B Kara
  • M H Kelsey
  • S Kenany
  • A Kennedy
  • M Kiveni
  • K Koch
  • A Leder
  • B Loer
  • E Lopez Asamar
  • R Mahapatra
  • V Mandic
  • C Martinez
  • K A McCarthy
  • N Mirabolfathi
  • R A Moffatt
  • R H Nelson
  • L Novak
  • K Page
  • R Partridge
  • M Pepin
  • A Phipps
  • M Platt
  • K Prasad
  • M Pyle
  • H Qiu
  • W Rau
  • P Redl
  • A Reisetter
  • R W Resch
  • Y Ricci
  • M Ruschman
  • T Saab
  • B Sadoulet
  • J Sander
  • R L Schmitt
  • K Schneck
  • R W Schnee
  • S Scorza
  • D N Seitz
  • B Serfass
  • B Shank
  • D Speller
  • A Tomada
  • S Upadhyayula
  • A N Villano
  • B Welliver
  • D H Wright
  • S Yellin
  • J J Yen
  • B A Young
  • J Zhang
چکیده

We report a first search for weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) using the background rejection capabilities of SuperCDMS. An exposure of 577 kg days was analyzed for WIMPs with mass <30  GeV/c(2), with the signal region blinded. Eleven events were observed after unblinding. We set an upper limit on the spin-independent WIMP-nucleon cross section of 1.2×10(-42)  cm(2) at 8  GeV/c(2). This result is in tension with WIMP interpretations of recent experiments and probes new parameter space for WIMP-nucleon scattering for WIMP masses <6  GeV/c(2).

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Physical review letters

دوره 112 24  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2014