588 research outputs found
Low-threshold analysis of CDMS shallow-site data
Data taken during the final shallow-site run of the first tower of the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS II) detectors have been reanalyzed with improved sensitivity to small energy depositions. Four ~224 g germanium and two ~105 g silicon detectors were operated at the Stanford Underground Facility (SUF) between December 2001 and June 2002, yielding 118 live days of raw exposure. Three of the
germanium and both silicon detectors were analyzed with a new low-threshold technique, making it possible to lower the germanium and silicon analysis thresholds down to the actual trigger thresholds of ~1 and ~2 keV, respectively. Limits on the spin-independent cross section for weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) to elastically scatter from nuclei based on these data exclude interesting parameter space for WIMPs with masses below 9 GeV/c^2. Under standard halo assumptions, these data partially exclude parameter space favored by interpretations of the DAMA/LIBRA and CoGeNT experiments’ data as WIMP signals, and exclude new parameter space for WIMP masses between 3 and 4 GeV/c^2
Measurement of the tau lepton electronic branching fraction
complete author list: Akerib D.; Barish B.; Chadha M.; Cowen D.; Eigen G.; Miller J.; Urheim J.; Weinstein A.; Acosta D.; Masek G.; Ong B.; Paar H.; Sivertz M.; Bean A.; Gronberg J.; Kutschke R.; Menary S.; Morrison R.; Nelson H.; Richman J.; Tajima H.; Schmidt D.; Sperka D.; Witherell M.; Procario M.; Yang S.; Daoudi M.; Ford W.; Johnson D.; Lingel K.; Lohner M.; Rankin P.; Smith J.; Alexander J.; Bebek C.; Berkelman K.; Besson D.; Browder T.; Cassel D.; Coffman D.; Drell P.; Ehrlich R.; Galik R.; Garcia-Sciveres M.; Geiser B.; Gittelman B.; Gray S.; Hartill D.; Heltsley B.; Honscheid K.; Jones C.; Kandaswamy J.; Katayama N.; Kim P.; Kreinick D.; Ludwig G.; Masui J.; Mevissen J.; Mistry N.; Ng C.; Nordberg E.; O'Grady C.; Patterson J.; Peterson D.; Riley D.; Sapper M.; Selen M.; Worden H.; Worris M.; Würthwein F.; Avery P.; Freyberger A.; Rodriguez J.; Stephens R.; Yelton J.; Cinabro D.; Henderson S.; Kinoshita K.; Liu T.; Saulnier M.; Wilson R.; Yamamoto H.; Sadoff A.; Ammar R.; Ball S.; Baringer P.; Coppage D.; Copty N.; Davis R.; Hancock N.; Kelly M.; Kwak N.; Lam H.; Kubota Y.; Lattery M.; Nelson J.; Patton S.; Perticone D.; Poling R.; Savinov V.; Schrenk S.; Wang R.; Alam M.; Kim I.; Nemati B.; O'Neill J.; Romero V.; Severini H.; Sun C.; Wang P.; Zoeller M.; Crawford G.; Fulton R.; Gan K.; Kagan H.; Kass R.; Lee J.; Malchow R.; Morrow F.; Sung M.; White C.; Whitmore J.; Wilson P.; Butler F.; Fu X.; Kalbfleisch G.; Lambrecht M.; Ross W.; Skubic P.; Snow J.; Wang P.; Bortoletto D.; Brown D.; Dominick J.; McIlwain R.; Miao T.; Miller D.; Modesitt M.; Schaffner S.; Shibata E.; Shipsey I.; Battle M.; Ernst J.; Kroha H.; Roberts S.; Sparks K.; Thorndike E.; Wang C.; Sanghera S.; Skwarnicki T.; Stroynowski R.; Artuso M.; Goldberg M.; Horwitz N.; Kennett R.; Moneti G.; Muheim F.; Playfer S.; Rozen Y.; Rubin P.; Stone S.; Thulasidas M.; Yao W.; Zhu G.; Barnes A.; Bartelt J.; Csorna S.; Egyed Z.; Jain V.; Sheldon P.; Akerib D.S.</p
Search for inelastic dark matter with the CDMS II experiment
Results are presented from a reanalysis of the entire five-tower data set acquired with the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS II) experiment at the Soudan Underground Laboratory, with an exposure of 969 kg-days. The analysis window was extended to a recoil energy of 150 keV, and an improved surface-event background-rejection cut was defined to increase the sensitivity of the experiment to the inelastic dark matter (iDM) model. Three dark matter candidates were found between 25 keV and 150 keV. The probability to observe three or more background events in this energy range is 11%. Because of the occurrence of these events, the constraints on the iDM parameter space are slightly less stringent than those from our previous analysis, which used an energy window of 10–100 keV.
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Low energy conversion electron detection in superfluid He3 at ultra-low temperature
We report on the first results of the MACHe3 (MAtrix of Cells of Helium 3)
prototype experiment concerning the measurement of low energy conversion
electrons at ultra-low temperature. For the first time, the feasibility of the
detection of low energy electrons is demonstrated in superfluid He3-B cooled
down to 100 microK. Low energy electrons at 7.3 keV coming from the K shell
conversion of the 14.4 keV nuclear transition of a low activity Co57 source are
detected, opening the possibility to use a He3-based detector for the detection
of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) which are expected to release
an amount of energy higher-bounded by 5.6 keV.Comment: 8 pages, 3 figures, to appear in NIM
DAMA detection claim is still compatible with all other DM searches
We show that the annual modulation signal observed by DAMA can be reconciled
with all other negative results from dark matter searches with a conventional
halo model for particle masses around 5 to 9 GeV. We also show which particular
dark matter stream could produce the DAMA signal.Comment: Talk given at TAUP2005, Sept. 10-14 2005, Zaragoza (Spain). 3 pages,
4 figure
Neutrino Coherent Scattering Rates at Direct Dark Matter Detectors
Neutrino-induced recoil events may constitute a background to direct dark
matter searches, particularly for those detectors that strive to reach the
ton-scale and beyond. This paper discusses the expected neutrino-induced
background spectrum due to several of the most important sources, including
solar, atmospheric, and diffuse supernova neutrinos. The largest rate arises
from B produced solar neutrinos, providing upwards of events
per ton-year over all recoil energies for the heaviest nuclear targets. However
the majority of these B events are expected to be below the recoil
threshold of modern detectors. The remaining neutrino sources are found to
constitute a background to the WIMP-induced recoil rate only if the
WIMP-nucleon cross section is less than pb. Finally the sensitivity
to diffuse supernova neutrino flux for non-electron neutrino flavors is
discussed, and projected flux limits are compared with existing flux limits
Single Neutralino production at CERN LHC
The common belief that the lightest supersymmetric particle (LSP) might be a
neutralino, providing also the main Dark Matter (DM) component, calls for
maximal detail in the study of the neutralino properties. Motivated by this, we
consider the direct production of a single neutralino \tchi^0_i at a
high/energy hadron collider, focusing on the \tchi^0_1 and \tchi^0_2 cases.
At Born level, the relevant subprocesses are q\bar q\to \tchi^0_i \tilde g,
g q\to \tchi^0_i \tilde q_{L,R} and q\bar q'\to \tchi^0_i\tchi^\pm_j; while
at 1-loop, apart from radiative corrections to these processes, we consider
also gg\to \tchi^0_i\tilde{g}, for which a numerical code named PLATONgluino
is released. The relative importance of these channels turns out to be
extremely model dependent. Combining these results with an analogous study of
the direct \tchi^0_i\tchi^0_j pair production, should help in testing the
SUSY models and the Dark Matter assignment.Comment: 22 pages and 12 figures; version to appear in Phys.Rev.
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