Speaker
Sebastian Arrenberg
Description
The Cryogenic Dark Matter Search Experiment (CDMS) employs a total of 30 Germanium and Silicon Detectors at the Soudan Underground Laboratory to detect weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) via their elastic scattering from the target nuclei. Previous CDMS results, released in February 2008, yielded a world-leading limit for spin-independent WIMP-nucleon cross sections for WIMP masses above 44 GeV/c^2, restricting significant parts of the parameter space favored by supersymmetric models. Data taken between July 2007 and October 2008 increase the exposure by a factor of 2.5. Latest results of the experiment will be presented.
