Orateur
M.
Sebastian Arrenberg
(Department of Physics, University of Zürich)
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 scattering
from the target nuclei. Previous CDMS results, released
in December 2009, set the world leading limit on the
spin-independent WIMP-nucleon cross section above
WIMP masses of ~50 GeV/c^2 assuming elastic scattering.
In a subsequent analysis we investigated the inelastic
dark matter scenario which was proposed to reconcile
the disagreement between the results of DAMA/LIBRA
and other existing dark matter search experiments. In
order to maximize the sensitivity to this particular model
a refined analysis in the range from 25 to 150 keV has
been performed. Results emerging from this analysis
will be presented.
Author
M.
Sebastian Arrenberg
(Department of Physics, University of Zürich)
