8–13 Aug 2011
Rhode Island Convention Center
US/Eastern timezone

Constraining Light Dark Matter with CDMS II and SuperCDMS

10 Aug 2011, 17:10
20m
550 (Rhode Island Convention Center)

550

Rhode Island Convention Center

Parallel contribution Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology

Speaker

Scott Hertel (Department of Physics)

Description

There has been much recent interest in Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP) models with masses below 10 GeV/c^2. Data from the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS II) have been reanalyzed to give increased sensitivity to these models. Using a lowered, 2 keV recoil energy threshold, we have reanalyzed data from eight germanium detectors operated at the Soudan Underground Laboratory, and used these data to place constraints on light WIMP models. We discuss the compatibility of these results with possible low-mass WIMP signals from the DAMA/LIBRA and CoGeNT experiments, and also discuss prospects for improving SuperCDMS sensitivity to light WIMPs by operating existing detectors in a high-voltage mode.

Primary author

Scott Hertel (Department of Physics)

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