First results on low-mass dark matter from the CRESST-III experiment
Abstract
The CRESST experiment, located at Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Italy, searches for dark matter particles via their elastic scattering off nuclei in a target material. The CRESST target consists of scintillating CaWO crystals, which are operated as cryogenic calorimeters at millikelvin temperatures. Each interaction in the CaWO target crystal produces a phonon signal and a light signal that is measured by a second cryogenic calorimeter. Since the CRESST-II result in 2015, the experiment is leading the field of direct dark matter search for dark matter masses below 1.7\,GeV/, extending the reach of direct searches to the sub-GeV/ mass region. For CRESST-III, whose Phase 1 started in July 2016, detectors have been optimized to reach the performance required to further probe the low-mass region with unprecedented sensitivity. In this contribution the achievements of the CRESST-III detectors will be discussed together with preliminary results and perspectives of Phase 1.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1711.07692,
title = {First results on low-mass dark matter from the CRESST-III experiment},
author = {CRESST collaboration and F. Petricca and G. Angloher and P. Bauer and A. Bento and C. Bucci and L. Canonica and X. Defay and A. Erb and F. v. Feilitzsch and N. Ferreiro Iachellini and P. Gorla and A. Gütlein and D. Hauff and J. Jochum and M. Kiefer and H. Kluck and H. Kraus and J. C. Lanfranchi and A. Lagenkämper and J. Loebell and M. Mancuso and E. Mondragon and A. Münster and C. Pagliarone and W. Potzel and F. Pröbst and R. Puig and F. Reindl and J. Rothe and K. Schäffner and J. Schieck and S. Schönert and W. Seidel and M. Stahlberg and L. Stodolsky and C. Strandhagen and R. Strauss and A. Tanzke and H. H. Trinh Thi and C. Türkoğlu and A. Ulrich and I. Usherov and S. Wawoczny and M. Willers and M. Wüstrich},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.07692},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
XV International Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics, TAUP2017, submitted to Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS)