Silicon Detector Dark Matter Results from the Final Exposure of CDMS II
2013
We report results of a search for
weakly interacting massive particles(
WIMPS) with the silicon detectors of the CDMS II experiment. This blind analysis of 140.2 kg day of data taken between July 2007 and September 2008 revealed three
WIMP-candidate events with a surface-event background estimate of 0.41^(+0.20)_(−0.08)(stat)^(+0.28)_(−0.24)(syst). Other known backgrounds from neutrons and ^(206)Pb are limited to <0.13 and <0.08 events at the 90% confidence level, respectively. The exposure of this analysis is equivalent to 23.4 kg day for a
recoilenergy range of 7–100 keV for a
WIMPof mass 10 GeV/c^2. The probability that the known backgrounds would produce three or more events in the signal region is 5.4%. A profile
likelihood ratio testof the three events that includes the measured
recoilenergies gives a 0.19% probability for the known-background-only hypothesis when tested against the alternative
WIMP+background hypothesis. The highest likelihood occurs for a
WIMPmass of 8.6 GeV/c2 and
WIMP-nucleon cross section of 1.9×10^(−41) cm^2.
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