Silicon detector results from the first five-tower run of CDMS II
2013
We report results of a search for
weakly interacting massive particles(
WIMPs) with the Si detectors of the CDMS II experiment. This report describes a blind analysis of the first data taken with CDMS II’s full complement of detectors in 2006–2007; results from this exposure using the Ge detectors have already been presented. We observed no candidate
WIMP-scattering events in an exposure of 55.9 kg-days before analysis cuts, with an expected background of ∼1.1 events. The exposure of this analysis is equivalent to 10.3 kg-days over a recoil energy range of 7–100 keV for an ideal Si detector and a
WIMPmass of 10 GeV/c^2. These data set an upper limit of 1.7×10^(-41) cm^2 on the
WIMP-nucleon spin-independent cross section of a 10 GeV/c^2
WIMP. These data exclude parameter space for spin-independent
WIMP-nucleon elastic scattering that is relevant to recent searches for low-mass
WIMPs.
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