1. Silicon detector dark matter results from the final exposure of CDMS II
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Matthew Fritts, Jeffrey P. Filippini, G.L. Godfrey, Jodi Cooley, M. H. Kelsey, Vuk Mandic, K. Prasad, S. A. Hertel, P. L. Brink, David O. Caldwell, Y. Ricci, T. Hofer, P. Nadeau, Steven W. Leman, M. Kos, B. Shank, D. Balakishiyeva, Martin E. Huber, Donald J. Holmgren, P. Cushman, J. Sander, K. Koch, A. W. Borgland, C. H. Crewdson, D. A. Bauer, L. Esteban, Miguel Daal, R. Basu Thakur, R. Partridge, A. Jastram, K. L. Page, S. Scorza, P. Redl, B. Loer, J. Hall, B. Serfass, R. H. Harris, Cristián Martínez, David Moore, Robert A. Moffatt, Bernard Sadoulet, S. Arrenberg, P. Kim, K. Schneck, J. J. Yen, H. Qiu, B. Kara, Z. Ahmed, R. Bunker, A. N. Villano, T. Bruch, B. Welliver, Betty A. Young, Sunil Golwala, A. Kennedy, Danielle Speller, David G. Cerdeño, N. Mirabolfathi, Douglas Wright, A. Reisetter, B. Cornell, Blas Cabrera, A. Phipps, K. M. Sundqvist, L. Hsu, W. Rau, R. Mahapatra, Kevin A. McCarthy, H. Chagani, R. W. Schnee, J. Fox, O. Kamaev, J. Zhang, F. DeJongh, E. Do Couto E Silva, Adam Anderson, D. Brandt, R. Agnese, S. Fallows, Enectali Figueroa-Feliciano, M. Kiveni, S. J. Yellin, Matt Pyle, E. Lopez Asamar, Tarek Saab, J. Yoo, J. Billard, M. Pepin, R. H. Nelson, T. Doughty, and UAM. Departamento de Física Teórica
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Particle physics ,Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors ,Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO) ,Dark matter ,FOS: Physical sciences ,General Physics and Astronomy ,01 natural sciences ,High Energy Physics - Experiment ,Nuclear physics ,High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) ,Recoil ,WIMP ,0103 physical sciences ,Neutron ,010306 general physics ,Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) ,Physics ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,Física ,Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det) ,Confidence interval ,Semiconductor detector ,Likelihood-ratio test ,Weakly interacting massive particles ,Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics ,Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics - Abstract
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-days 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 206Pb are limited to < 0.13 and, 5 pages, 4 figures, as accepted by PRL
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- 2013