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Limits on spin-independent WIMP-nucleon interactions from the two-tower run of the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search

We report new results from the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS II) at the Soudan Underground Laboratory. Two towers, each consisting of six detectors, were operated for 74.5 live days, giving spectrum-weighted exposures of 34 kg-d for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-27 CDMS Collaboration

Solar and Atmospheric Neutrinos: Limitations for Direct Dark Matter Searches

In experiments for direct dark matter searches, neutrinos coherently scattering off nuclei can produce similar events as Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs). To reach sensitivities better than about 10^-10 pb for the elastic WIMP…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-09-24 A. Gütlein , W. Potzel , C. Ciemniak , F. von Feilitzsch , N. Haag , M. Hofmann , C. Isaila , T. Lachenmaier , J. -C. Lanfranchi , L. Oberauer , S. Pfister , S. Roth , M. von Sivers , R. Strauß , A. Zöller

Discriminating WIMP-nucleus response functions in present and future XENON-like direct detection experiments

The standard interpretation of direct-detection limits on dark matter involves particular assumptions of the underlying WIMP-nucleus interaction, such as, in the simplest case, the choice of a Helm form factor that phenomenologically…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-06-06 A. Fieguth , M. Hoferichter , P. Klos , J. Menéndez , A. Schwenk , C. Weinheimer

Results from the Super Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (SuperCDMS) experiment at Soudan

We report the result of a blinded search for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) using the majority of the SuperCDMS Soudan dataset. With an exposure of 1690 kg days, a single candidate event is observed, consistent with expected…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-02-14 SuperCDMS Collaboration , R. Agnese , T. Aramaki , I. J. Arnquist , W. Baker , D. Balakishiyeva , S. Banik , D. Barker , R. Basu Thakur , D. A. Bauer , T. Binder , M. A. Bowles , P. L. Brink , R. Bunker , B. Cabrera , D. O. Caldwell , R. Calkins , C. Cartaro , D. G. Cerdeño , Y. Chang , Y. Chen , J. Cooley , B. Cornell , P. Cushman , M. Daal , P. C. F. Di Stefano , T. Doughty , E. Fascione , E. Figueroa-Feliciano , M. Fritts , G. Gerbier , R. Germond , M. Ghaith , G. L. Godfrey , S. R. Golwala , J. Hall , H. R. Harris , Z. Hong , E. W. Hoppe , L. Hsu , M. E. Huber , V. Iyer , D. Jardin , A. Jastram , C. Jena , M. H. Kelsey , A. Kennedy , A. Kubik , N. A. Kurinsky , B. Loer , E. Lopez Asamar , P. Lukens , D. MacDonell , R. Mahapatra , V. Mandic , N. Mast , E. H. Miller , N. Mirabolfathi , B. Mohanty , J. D. Morales Mendoza , J. Nelson , J. L. Orrell , S. M. Oser , K. Page , W. A. Page , R. Partridge , M. Penalver Martinez , M. Pepin , A. Phipps , S. Poudel , M. Pyle , H. Qiu , W. Rau , P. Redl , A. Reisetter , T. Reynolds , A. Roberts , A. E. Robinson , H. E. Rogers , T. Saab , B. Sadoulet , J. Sander , K. Schneck , R. W. Schnee , S. Scorza , K. Senapati , B. Serfass , D. Speller , M. Stein , J. Street , H. A. Tanaka , D. Toback , R. Underwood , A. N. Villano , B. von Krosigk , B. Welliver , J. S. Wilson , M. J. Wilson , D. H. Wright , S. Yellin , J. J. Yen , B. A. Young , X. Zhang , X. Zhao

Limits on spin-dependent WIMP-nucleon cross-sections from the first ZEPLIN-II data

The first underground data run of the ZEPLIN-II experiment has set a limit on the nuclear recoil rate in the two-phase xenon detector for direct dark matter searches. In this paper the results from this run are converted into the limits on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 G. J. Alner et al.

Direct Detection Constraints on Dark Photon Dark Matter

Dark matter detectors built primarily to probe elastic scattering of WIMPs on nuclei are also precise probes of light, weakly coupled particles that may be absorbed by the detector material. In this paper, we derive constraints on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-07-23 Haipeng An , Maxim Pospelov , Josef Pradler , Adam Ritz

Majorana Dark Matter Cross Sections with Nucleons at High Energies

Non-relativistic dark matter scattering with nucleons is constrained by direct detection experiments. We use the XENON constraints on the spin-independent and spin-dependent cross section for dark matter scattering with nucleons to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-05 Yu Seon Jeong , C. S. Kim , Mary Hall Reno

Projected WIMP sensitivity of the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) dark matter experiment

LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) is a next generation dark matter direct detection experiment that will operate 4850 feet underground at the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) in Lead, South Dakota, USA. Using a two-phase xenon detector with an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-19 D. S. Akerib , C. W. Akerlof , S. K. Alsum , H. M. Araújo , M. Arthurs , X. Bai , A. J. Bailey , J. Balajthy , S. Balashov , D. Bauer , J. Belle , P. Beltrame , T. Benson , E. P. Bernard , T. P. Biesiadzinski , K. E. Boast , B. Boxer , P. Brás , J. H. Buckley , V. V. Bugaev , S. Burdin , J. K. Busenitz , C. Carels , D. L. Carlsmith , B. Carlson , M. C. Carmona-Benitez , C. Chan , J. J. Cherwinka , A. Cole , A. Cottle , W. W. Craddock , A. Currie , J. E. Cutter , C. E. Dahl , L. de Viveiros , A. Dobi , J. E. Y. Dobson , E. Druszkiewicz , T. K. Edberg , W. R. Edwards , A. Fan , S. Fayer , S. Fiorucci , T. Fruth , R. J. Gaitskell , J. Genovesi , C. Ghag , M. G. D. Gilchriese , M. G. D. van der Grinten , C. R. Hall , S. Hans , K. Hanzel , S. J. Haselschwardt , S. A. Hertel , S. Hillbrand , C. Hjemfelt , M. D. Hoff , J. Y-K. Hor , D. Q. Huang , C. M. Ignarra , W. Ji , A. C. Kaboth , K. Kamdin , J. Keefner , D. Khaitan , A. Khazov , Y. D. Kim , C. D. Kocher , E. V. Korolkova , H. Kraus , H. J. Krebs , L. Kreczko , B. Krikler , V. A. Kudryavtsev , S. Kyre , J. Lee , B. G. Lenardo , D. S. Leonard , K. T. Lesko , C. Levy , J. Li , J. Liao , F. -T. Liao , J. Lin , A. Lindote , R. Linehan , W. H. Lippincott , X. Liu , M. I. Lopes , B. López Paredes , W. Lorenzon , S. Luitz , J. M. Lyle , P. Majewski , A. Manalaysay , R. L. Mannino , C. Maupin , D. N. McKinsey , Y. Meng , E. H. Miller , J. Mock , M. E. Monzani , J. A. Morad , E. Morrison , B. J. Mount , A. St. J. Murphy , H. N. Nelson , F. Neves , J. Nikoleyczik , K. O'Sullivan , I. Olcina , M. A. Olevitch , K. C. Oliver-Mallory , K. J. Palladino , S. J. Patton , E. K. Pease , B. Penning , A. Piepke , S. Powell , R. M. Preece , K. Pushkin , B. N. Ratcliff , J. Reichenbacher , C. A. Rhyne , A. Richards , J. P. Rodrigues , R. Rosero , P. Rossiter , J. S. Saba , M. Sarychev , R. W. Schnee , M. Schubnell , P. R. Scovell , S. Shaw , T. A. Shutt , J. J. Silk , C. Silva , K. Skarpaas , W. Skulski , M. Solmaz , V. N. Solovov , P. Sorensen , I. Stancu , M. R. Stark , T. M. Stiegler , K. Stifter , M. Szydagis , W. C. Taylor , R. Taylor , D. J. Taylor , D. Temples , P. A. Terman , K. J. Thomas , M. Timalsina , W. H. To , A. Tomás , T. E. Tope , M. Tripathi , C. E. Tull , L. Tvrznikova , U. Utku , J. Va'vra , A. Vacheret , J. R. Verbus , E. Voirin , W. L. Waldron , J. R. Watson , R. C. Webb , D. T. White , T. J. Whitis , W. J. Wisniewski , M. S. Witherell , F. L. H. Wolfs , D. Woodward , S. D. Worm , M. Yeh , J. Yin , I. Young

WIMP Dark Matter Direct-Detection Searches in Noble Gases

Cosmological observations and the dynamics of the Milky Way provide ample evidence for an invisible and dominant mass component. This so-called dark matter could be made of new, colour and charge neutral particles, which were…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-20 Laura Baudis

MSSM WIMPs-nucleon cross section for E$_\chi <$ 500 GeV

Among dark-matter candidates are the WIMPs (Weekly Interacting Massive Particles). Low-threshold detectors could directly detect dark-matter by measuring the energy deposited by the particles. In this work we examine the cross section for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-19 K. Fushimi , M. E. Mosquera , O. Civitarese

Background Determination for the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Dark Matter Experiment

The LUX-ZEPLIN experiment recently reported limits on WIMP-nucleus interactions from its initial science run, down to $9.2\times10^{-48}$ cm$^2$ for the spin-independent interaction of a 36 GeV/c$^2$ WIMP at 90% confidence level. In this…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-07-19 J. Aalbers , D. S. Akerib , A. K. Al Musalhi , F. Alder , S. K. Alsum , C. S. Amarasinghe , A. Ames , T. J. Anderson , N. Angelides , H. M. Araújo , J. E. Armstrong , M. Arthurs , A. Baker , J. Bang , J. W. Bargemann , A. Baxter , K. Beattie , P. Beltrame , E. P. Bernard , A. Bhatti , A. Biekert , T. P. Biesiadzinski , H. J. Birch , G. M. Blockinger , B. Boxer , C. A. J. Brew , P. Brás , S. Burdin , M. Buuck , R. Cabrita , M. C. Carmona-Benitez , C. Chan , A. Chawla , H. Chen , A. P. S. Chiang , N. I. Chott , M. V. Converse , A. Cottle , G. Cox , O. Creaner , C. E. Dahl , A. David , S. Dey , L. de Viveiros , C. Ding , J. E. Y. Dobson , E. Druszkiewicz , S. R. Eriksen , A. Fan , N. M. Fearon , S. Fiorucci , H. Flaecher , E. D. Fraser , T. Fruth , R. J. Gaitskell , J. Genovesi , C. Ghag , R. Gibbons , M. G. D. Gilchriese , S. Gokhale , J. Green , M. G. D. van der Grinten , C. B. Gwilliam , C. R. Hall , S. Han , E. Hartigan-O'Connor , S. J. Haselschwardt , S. A. Hertel , G. Heuermann , M. Horn , D. Q. Huang , D. Hunt , C. M. Ignarra , R. G. Jacobsen , O. Jahangir , R. S. James , J. Johnson , A. C. Kaboth , A. C. Kamaha , D. Khaitan , I. Khurana , R. Kirk , D. Kodroff , L. Korley , E. V. Korolkova , H. Kraus , S. Kravitz , L. Kreczko , B. Krikler , V. A. Kudryavtsev , E. A. Leason , J. Lee , D. S. Leonard , K. T. Lesko , C. Levy , J. Lin , A. Lindote , R. Linehan , W. H. Lippincott , X. Liu , M. I. Lopes , E. Lopez Asamar , B. López Paredes , W. Lorenzon , C. Lu , S. Luitz , P. A. Majewski , A. Manalaysay , R. L. Mannino , N. Marangou , M. E. McCarthy , D. N. McKinsey , J. McLaughlin , E. H. Miller , E. Mizrachi , A. Monte , M. E. Monzani , J. D. Morales Mendoza , E. Morrison , B. J. Mount , M. Murdy , A. St. J. Murphy , D. Naim , A. Naylor , C. Nedlik , H. N. Nelson , F. Neves , A. Nguyen , J. A. Nikoleyczik , I. Olcina , K. C. Oliver-Mallory , J. Orpwood , K. J. Palladino , J. Palmer , N. Parveen , S. J. Patton , B. Penning , G. Pereira , E. Perry , T. Pershing , A. Piepke , D. Porzio , S. Poudel , Y. Qie , J. Reichenbacher , C. A. Rhyne , Q. Riffard , G. R. C. Rischbieter , H. S. Riyat , R. Rosero , P. Rossiter , T. Rushton , D. Santone , A. B. M. R. Sazzad , R. W. Schnee , S. Shaw , T. Shutt , J. J. Silk , C. Silva , G. Sinev , R. Smith , M. Solmaz , V. N. Solovov , P. Sorensen , J. Soria , I. Stancu , A. Stevens , K. Stifter , B. Suerfu , T. J. Sumner , N. Swanson , M. Szydagis , R. Taylor , W. C. Taylor , D. J. Temples , P. A. Terman , D. R. Tiedt , M. Timalsina , Z. Tong , D. R. Tovey , J. Tranter , M. Trask , M. Tripathi , D. R. Tronstad , W. Turner , U. Utku , A. C. Vaitkus , A. Wang , J. J. Wang , W. Wang , Y. Wang , J. R. Watson , R. C. Webb , T. J. Whitis , M. Williams , F. L. H. Wolfs , S. Woodford , D. Woodward , C. J. Wright , Q. Xia , X. Xiang , J. Xu , M. Yeh

Indirect Search for Dark Matter from the Galactic Center and Halo with the Super-Kamiokande Detector

We present a search for an excess of neutrino interactions due to dark matter in the form of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) annihilating in the galactic center or halo based on the data set of Super-Kamiokande-I, -II, -III and…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-10-14 Kamiokande Collaboration , K. Abe , C. Bronner , Y. Haga , Y. Hayato , M. Ikeda , S. Imaizumi , H. Ito , K. Iyogi , J. Kameda , Y. Kataoka , Y. Kato , Y. Kishimoto , Ll. Marti , M. Miura , S. Moriyama , T. Mochizuki , Y. Nagao , M. Nakahata , Y. Nakajima , T. Nakajima , S. Nakayama , T. Okada , K. Okamoto , A. Orii , G. Pronost , H. Sekiya , M. Shiozawa , Y. Sonoda , A. Takeda , A. Takenaka , H. Tanaka , S. Tasaka , T. Tomura , K. Ueno , T. Yano , T. Yokozawa , R. Akutsu , S. Han , T. Irvine , T. Kajita , I. Kametani , K. P. Lee , T. McLachlan , K. Okumura , E. Richard , T. Tashiro , R. Wang , J. Xia , D. Bravo-Berguño , L. Labarga , P. Fernandez , F. d. M. Blaszczyk , J. Gustafson , C. Kachulis , E. Kearns , J. L. Raaf , J. L. Stone , L. R. Sulak , S. Sussman , L. Wan , T. Wester , S. Berkman , S. Tobayama , J. Bian , G. Carminati , M. Elnimr , N. J. Griskevich , W. R. Kropp , S. Locke , S. Mine , A. Renshaw , M. B. Smy , H. W. Sobel , V. Takhistov , P. Weatherly , B. L. Hartfiel , J. Hill , W. E. Keig , N. Hong , J. Y. Kim , I. T. Lim , R. G. Park , T. Akiri , B. Bodur , A. Himmel , Z. Li , E. O'Sullivan , K. Scholberg , C. W. Walter , T. Wongjirad , A. Coffani , O. Drapier , S. El Hedri , A. Giampaolo , M. Gonin , J. Imber , Th. A. Mueller , P. Paganini , B. Quilain , T. Ishizuka , T. Nakamura , J. S. Jang , K. Choi , J. G. Learned , S. Matsuno , S. N. Smith , J. Amey , L. H. V. Anthony , R. P. Litchfield , W. Y. Ma , A. A. Sztuc , Y. Uchida , M. O. Wascko , V. Berardi , M. G. Catanesi , R. A. Intonti , E. Radicioni , N. F. Calabria , L. N. Machado , G. De Rosa , G. Collazuol , F. Iacob , M. Lamoureux , N. Ospina , L. Ludovici , T. Boschi , F. Di Lodovico , S. Molina Sedgwick , S. Zsoldos , Y. Nishimura , S. Cao , M. Friend , T. Hasegawa , T. Ishida , T. Ishii , T. Kobayashi , T. Nakadaira , K. Nakamura , Y. Oyama , K. Sakashita , T. Sekiguchi , T. Tsukamoto , KE. Abe , M. Hasegawa , Y. Isobe , H. Miyabe , Y. Nakano , T. Shiozawa , T. Sugimoto , A. T. Suzuki , Y. Takeuchi , S. Yamamoto , A. Ali , Y. Ashida , T. Hayashino , T. Hiraki , S. Hirota , K. Huang , K. Ieki , M. Jiang , T. Kikawa , M. Mori , A. Murakami , KE. Nakamura , T. Nakaya , N. D. Patel , K. Suzuki , S. Takahashi , K. Tateishi , R. A. Wendell , N. McCauley , P. Mehta , A. Pritchard , K. M. Tsui , Y. Fukuda , Y. Itow , H. Menjo , G. Mitsuka , M. Murase , F. Muto , T. Niwa , K. Sato , T. Suzuki , M. Taani , z M. Tsukada , P. Mijakowski , K. Frankiewicz , J. Hignight , C. K. Jung , X. Li , J. L. Palomino , G. Santucci , C. Vilela , M. J. Wilking , C. Yanagisawa , D. Fukuda , K. Hagiwara , M. Harada , T. Horai , H. Ishino , S. Ito , T. Kayano , A. Kibayashi , Y. Koshio , W. Ma , T. Mori , H. Nagata , N. Piplani , M. Sakuda , S. Seiya , Y. Takahira , C. Xu , R. Yamaguchi , Y. Kuno , G. Barr , D. Barrow , L. Cook , C. Simpson , D. Wark , F. Nova , R. Tacik , J. Y. Yang , A. Cole , S. J. Jenkins , J. McElwee , M. Thiesse , L. Thompson , H. Okazawa , S. B. Kim , Y. Choi , K. Ito , K. Nishijima , K. Iwamoto , M. Koshiba , Y. Suda , M. Yokoyama , R. G. Calland , A. Goldsack , K. Martens , M. Murdoch , Y. Suzuki , M. R. Vagins , D. Hamabe , M. Kuze , Y. Okajima , M. Tanaka , T. Yoshida , M. Inomoto , M. Ishitsuka , R. Matsumoto , K. Ohta , M. Shinoki , J. F. Martin , C. M. Nantais , H. A. Tanaka , T. Towstego , M. Hartz , A. Konaka , P. de Perio , N. W. Prouse , S. Chen , B. D. Xu , Y. Zhang , B. Richards , K. Connolly , R. J. Wilkes , B. Jamieson , J. Walker , P. Giorgio , A. Minamino , K. Okamoto , G. Pintaudi

Determining Ratios of WIMP-Nucleon Cross Sections from Direct Dark Matter Detection Data

Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) are one of the leading candidates for Dark Matter. So far the usual procedure for constraining the WIMP-nucleon cross sections in direct Dark Matter detection experiments have been to fit the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-07-05 Chung-Lin Shan

Limits on WIMP-Scattering Cross Sections using Solar Neutrinos with Ten Years of IceCube Data

Although dark matter (DM) comprises 84\% of the matter content of the Universe, its nature remains unknown. One broad class of particle DM motivated by extensions of the Standard Model (SM) is weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs).…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-14 Jeffrey Lazar

Search for dark matter from the first data of the PandaX-II experiment

Results of WIMP dark matter search from the first data of the PandaX-II experiment are presented. PandaX-II experiment uses a 500 kg scale dual phase liquid xenon time projection chamber, operating at the China JinPing Underground…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-16 Yong Yang

New Limits on Dark Matter from Super-Kamiokande

The signals observed at the direct detection experiments DAMA, CoGeNT and CRESST could be explained by light WIMPs with sizeable spin-independent cross sections with nucleons. The capture and subsequent annihilation of such particles in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-06-21 Rolf Kappl , Martin Wolfgang Winkler

Bayes and present dark matter direct search status

Recently there has been a huge activity in the dark matter direct detection field, with the report of an excess from CoGeNT and CRESST along with the annual modulated signal of DAMA/Libra and the strong exclusion bound from XENON100. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Chiara Arina

Low-Mass Dark-Matter Hint from CDMS II, Higgs Boson at the LHC, and Darkon Models

The CDMS II experiment has observed three events which may have arisen from weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter (DM) with mass of order 9 GeV colliding with nuclei. Although the implied WIMP parameter region seems to be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-08-01 Xiao-Gang He , Jusak Tandean

Light dark matter search with DarkSide-50

We present the latest results from the search for light dark matter particle interactions with the DarkSide-50 dual-phase liquid argon time projection chamber. This analysis, based on the ionization signal only, improves the existing limits…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-07-18 D. Franco

A Search of Low-Mass WIMPs with p-type Point Contact Germanium Detector in the CDEX-1 Experiment

The CDEX-1 experiment conducted a search of low-mass (< 10 GeV/c2) Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) dark matter at the China Jinping Underground Laboratory using a p-type point-contact germanium detector with a fiducial mass of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-10-25 W. Zhao , Q. Yue , K. J. Kang , J. P. Cheng , Y. J. Li , H. T. Wong , S. T. Lin , J. P. Chang , J. H. Chen , Q. H. Chen , Y. H. Chen , Z. Deng , Q. Du , H. Gong , X. Q. Hao , H. J. He , Q. J. He , H. X. Huang , T. R. Huang , H. Jiang , H. B. Li , J. Li , J. Li , J. M. Li , X. Li , X. Y. Li , Y. L. Li , F. K. Lin , S. K. Liu , L. C. Lü , H. Ma , J. L. Ma , S. J. Mao , J. Q. Qin , J. Ren , J. Ren , X. C. Ruan , V. Sharma , M. B. Shen , L. Singh , M. K. Singh , A. K. Soma , J. Su , C. J. Tang , J. M. Wang , L. Wang , Q. Wang , S. Y. Wu , Y. C. Wu , Z. Z. Xianyu , R. Q. Xiao , H. Y. Xing , F. Z. Xu , Y. Xu , X. J. Xu , T. Xue , L. T. Yang , S. W. Yang , N. Yi , C. X. Yu , H. Yu , X. Z. Yu , M. Zeng , X. H. Zeng , Z. Zeng , L. Zhang , Y. H. Zhang , M. G. Zhao , Z. Y. Zhou , J. J. Zhu , W. B. Zhu , X. Z. Zhu , Z. H. Zhu