The Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS) : Present Status and Future
Abstract
The CDMS collaboration utilizes Ge detectors for their Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP) search at the Soudan mine, Minnesota. The final data run of CDMS II is complete and a detector upgrade for SuperCDMS has commenced. A SuperTower of five 1-inch thick Ge crystals has been installed and undergoing commissioning. Its surface-event rejection capability should allow SuperCDMS to continue to run background free for the next proposed phases: 15 kg Ge deployment at Soudan, and up to 150 kg Ge deployment at SNOLAB. Recent detector advances to allow a 1 tonne Ge experiment are also discussed.
- Publication:
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10th Conference on the Intersections of Particle and Nuclear Physics
- Pub Date:
- December 2009
- DOI:
- 10.1063/1.3293795
- Bibcode:
- 2009AIPC.1182..260B
- Keywords:
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- dark matter;
- astronomical atlases;
- cosmology;
- 95.35.+d;
- 95.80.+p;
- 98.80.-k;
- Dark matter;
- Astronomical catalogs atlases sky surveys databases retrieval systems archives etc.;
- Cosmology