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XENONnT WIMP Search: Signal & Background Modeling and Statistical Inference

The XENONnT experiment searches for weakly-interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter scattering off a xenon nucleus. In particular, XENONnT uses a dual-phase time projection chamber with a 5.9-tonne liquid xenon target, detecting both…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2025-06-04 XENON Collaboration , E. Aprile , J. Aalbers , K. Abe , S. Ahmed Maouloud , L. Althueser , B. Andrieu , E. Angelino , D. Antón Martin , F. Arneodo , L. Baudis , M. Bazyk , L. Bellagamba , R. Biondi , A. Bismark , K. Boese , A. Brown , G. Bruno , R. Budnik , J. M. R. Cardoso , A. P. Cimental Chávez , A. P. Colijn , J. Conrad , J. J. Cuenca-García , V. D'Andrea , L. C. Daniel Garcia , M. P. Decowski , C. Di Donato , P. Di Gangi , S. Diglio , K. Eitel , A. Elykov , A. D. Ferella , C. Ferrari , H. Fischer , T. Flehmke , M. Flierman , W. Fulgione , C. Fuselli , P. Gaemers , R. Gaior , M. Galloway , F. Gao , S. Ghosh , R. Giacomobono , R. Glade-Beucke , L. Grandi , J. Grigat , H. Guan , M. Guida , P. Gyoergy , R. Hammann , A. Higuera , C. Hils , L. Hoetzsch , N. F. Hood , M. Iacovacci , Y. Itow , J. Jakob , F. Joerg , Y. Kaminaga , M. Kara , P. Kavrigin , S. Kazama , M. Kobayashi , A. Kopec , F. Kuger , H. Landsman , R. F. Lang , L. Levinson , I. Li , S. Li , S. Liang , Y. -T. Lin , S. Lindemann , M. Lindner , K. Liu , J. Loizeau , F. Lombardi , J. Long , J. A. M. Lopes , T. Luce , Y. Ma , C. Macolino , J. Mahlstedt , A. Mancuso , L. Manenti , F. Marignetti , T. Marrodán Undagoitia , K. Martens , J. Masbou , E. Masson , S. Mastroianni , A. Melchiorre , M. Messina , A. Michael , K. Miuchi , A. Molinario , S. Moriyama , K. Morå , Y. Mosbacher , M. Murra , J. Müller , K. Ni , U. Oberlack , B. Paetsch , Y. Pan , Q. Pellegrini , R. Peres , C. Peters , J. Pienaar , M. Pierre , G. Plante , T. R. Pollmann , L. Principe , J. Qi , J. Qin , D. Ramírez García , M. Rajado , R. Singh , L. Sanchez , J. M. F. dos Santos , I. Sarnoff , G. Sartorelli , J. Schreiner , D. Schulte , P. Schulte , H. Schulze Eißing , M. Schumann , L. Scotto Lavina , M. Selvi , F. Semeria , P. Shagin , S. Shi , J. Shi , M. Silva , H. Simgen , A. Takeda , P. -L. Tan , A. Terliuk , D. Thers , F. Toschi , G. Trinchero , C. D. Tunnell , F. Tönnies , K. Valerius , S. Vecchi , S. Vetter , F. I. Villazon Solar , G. Volta , C. Weinheimer , M. Weiss , D. Wenz , C. Wittweg , V. H. S. Wu , Y. Xing , D. Xu , Z. Xu , M. Yamashita , L. Yang , J. Ye , L. Yuan , G. Zavattini , M. Zhong

Effects of Residue Background Events in Direct Dark Matter Detection Experiments on the Determination of the WIMP Mass

In the earlier work on the development of a model-independent data analysis method for determining the mass of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) by using measured recoil energies from direct Dark Matter detection experiments…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-13 Yu-Ting Chou , Chung-Lin Shan

Latest results of the EDELWEISS-II experiment

The EDELWEISS-II collaboration has performed a direct search for WIMP dark matter with an array of ten 400-g heat-and-ionization cryogenic detectors equipped with Inter-Digit electrodes for the rejection of near-surface events. Results from…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2011-06-09 Torrento-Coello , A. S

The DAMIC excess from WIMP-nucleus elastic scattering

Two dark matter searches performed with charge-coupled devices (CCDs) in the DAMIC cryostat at SNOLAB reported with high statistical significance the presence of an unidentified source of low-energy events in bulk silicon. The observed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-28 A. E. Chavarria , H. Lin , K. J. McGuire , A. Piers , M. Traina

Sensitivity of the EDELWEISS WIMP search to spin-dependent interactions

The EDELWEISS collaboration is searching for WIMP dark matter using natural Ge cryogenic detectors. The whole data set of the first phase of the experiment contains a fiducial exposure of 4.8 kg.day on Ge-73, the naturally present (7.8%),…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Benoit , L. Berge , J. Bluemer , A. Broniatowski , B. Censier , L. Chabert , M. Chapellier , G. Chardin , S. Collin , M. De Jesus , H. Deschamps , P. Di Stefano , Y. Dolgorouky , D. Drain , L. Dumoulin , K. Eitel , M. Fesquet , S. Fiorucci , J. Gascon , G. Gerbier , C. Goldbach , M. Gros , R. Gumbsheimer , M. Horn , A. Juillard , A. De Lesquen , M. Luca , J. Mallet , S. Marnieros , L. Mosca , X. -F. Navick , G. Nollez , P. Pari , M. Razeti , V. Sanglard , L. Schoeffel , M. Stern , V. Villar

Exclusion limits on the WIMP-nucleon cross-section from the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search

The Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS) employs low-temperature Ge and Si detectors to search for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) via their elastic-scattering interactions with nuclei while discriminating against interactions…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-27 CDMS Collaboration

Limits on light WIMPs with a germanium detector at 177 eVee threshold at the China Jinping Underground Laboratory

The China Dark Matter Experiment reports results on light WIMP dark matter searches at the China Jinping Underground Laboratory with a germanium detector array with a total mass of 20 g. The physics threshold achieved is 177 eVee ("ee"…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2014-08-20 S. K. Liu , Q. Yue , K. J. Kang , J. P. Cheng , H. T. Wong , Y. J. Li , S. T. Lin , J. P. Chang , N. Chen , Q. H. Chen , Y. H. Chen , Y. C. Chuang , 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. M. Li , J. Li , J. Li , X. Li , X. Q. Li , X. Y. Li , Y. L. Li , H. Y. Liao , F. K. Lin , L. C. Lü , H. Ma , S. J. Mao , J. Q. Qin , J. Ren , J. Ren , X. C. Ruan , M. B. Shen , L. Singh , M. K. Singh , A. K. Soma , J. Su , C. J. Tang , C. H. Tseng , J. M. Wang , L. Wang , Q. Wang , S. Y. Wu , Y. C. Wu , Y. C. Wu , Z. Z. Xianyu , R. Q. Xiao , H. Y. Xing , F. Z. Xu , Y. Xu , X. J. Xu , T. Xue , C. W. Yang , L. T. Yang , S. W. Yang , N. Yi , C. X. Yu , H. Yu , X. Z. Yu , X. H. Zeng , Z. Zeng , L. Zhang , Y. H. Zhang , M. G. Zhao , W. Zhao , Z. Y. Zhou , J. J. Zhu , W. B. Zhu , X. Z. Zhu , Z. H. Zhu

Search for neutrinos from annihilation of captured low-mass dark matter particles in the Sun by Super-Kamiokande

Super-Kamiokande (SK) can search for weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) by detecting neutrinos produced from WIMP annihilations occurring inside the Sun. In this analysis, we include neutrino events with interaction vertices in…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-03-18 Kamiokande Collaboration , K. Choi , K. Abe , Y. Haga , Y. Hayato , K. Iyogi , J. Kameda , Y. Kishimoto , M. Miura , S. Moriyama , M. Nakahata , Y. Nakano , S. Nakayama , H. Sekiya , M. Shiozawa , Y. Suzuki , A. Takeda , T. Tomura , R. A. Wendell , T. Irvine , 2 T. Kajita , I. Kametani , 2 K. Kaneyuki , K. P. Lee , Y. Nishimura , 2 K. Okumura , T. McLachlan , 2 L. Labarga , E. Kearns , J. L. Raaf , 4 J. L. Stone , L. R. Sulak , 4 S. Berkman , 5 H. A. Tanaka , 5 S. Tobayama , M. Goldhaber , G. Carminati , W. R. Kropp , S. Mine , A. Renshaw , M. B. Smy , H. W. Sobel , K. S. Ganezer , J. Hill , N. Hong , J. Y. Kim , I. T. Lim , T. Akiri , A. Himmel , K. Scholberg , C. W. Walter , T. Wongjirad , T. Ishizuka , S. Tasaka , J. S. Jang , J. G. Learned , S. Matsuno , S. N. Smith , T. Hasegawa , T. Ishida , T. Ishii , T. Kobayashi , T. Nakadaira , K. Nakamura , Y. Oyama , K. Sakashita , T. Sekiguchi , T. Tsukamoto , A. T. Suzuki , Y. Takeuchi , C. Bronner , S. Hirota , K. Huang , K. Ieki , M. Ikeda , T. Kikawa , A. Minamino , T. Nakaya , K. Suzuki , S. Takahashi , Y. Fukuda , Y. Itow , G. Mitsuka , P. Mijakowski , J. Hignight , J. Imber , C. K. Jung , C. Yanagisawa , H. Ishino , A. Kibayashi , Y. Koshio , T. Mori , M. Sakuda , T. Yano , Y. Kuno , R. Tacik , S. B. Kim , H. Okazawa , Y. Choi , K. Nishijima , M. Koshiba , Y. Totsuka , M. Yokoyama , K. Martens , Ll. Marti , M. R. Vagins , J. F. Martin , P. de Perio , A. Konaka , M. J. Wilking , S. Chen , Y. Zhang , R. J. Wilkes

General Heavy WIMP Nucleon Elastic Scattering

Heavy WIMP (weakly-interacting-massive-particle) effective field theory is used to compute the WIMP-nucleon scattering rate for general heavy electroweak multiplets through order $m_W/M$, where $m_W$ and $M$ denote the electroweak and WIMP…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-07 Qing Chen , Gui-Jun Ding , Richard J. Hill

Results from the Final Exposure of the CDMS II Experiment

We report results from a blind analysis of the final data taken with the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search experiment (CDMS II) at the Soudan Underground Laboratory, Minnesota, USA. A total raw exposure of 612 kg-days was analyzed for this work.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 The CDMS Collaboration , Z. Ahmed

Limits on WIMP dark matter with NaI(Tl) crystals in three years of COSINE-100 data

We report limits on WIMP dark matter derived from three years of data collected by the COSINE-100 experiment with NaI(Tl) crystals, achieving an improved energy threshold of 0.7 keV. This lowered threshold enhances sensitivity in the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-10-24 G. H. Yu , N. Carlin , J. Y. Cho , J. J. Choi , S. Choi , A. C. Ezeribe , L. E. Franca , C. Ha , I. S. Hahn , S. J. Hollick , E. J. Jeon , H. W. Joo , W. G. Kang , M. Kauer , B. H. Kim , H. J. Kim , J. Kim , K. W. Kim , S. H. Kim , S. K. Kim , W. K. Kim , Y. D. Kim , Y. H. Kim , Y. J. Ko , D. H. Lee , E. K. Lee , H. Lee , H. S. Lee , H. Y. Lee , I. S. Lee , J. Lee , J. Y. Lee , M. H. Lee , S. H. Lee , S. M. Lee , Y. J. Lee , D. S. Leonard , N. T. Luan , V. H. A. Machado , B. B. Manzato , R. H. Maruyama , R. J. Neal , S. L. Olsen , B. J. Park , H. K. Park , H. S. Park , J. C. Park , K. S. Park , S. D. Park , R. L. C. Pitta , H. Prihtiadi , S. J. Ra , C. Rott , K. A. Shin , D. F. F. S. Cavalcante , M. K. Son , N. J. C. Spooner , L. T. Truc , L. Yang

WIMP-nucleon scattering with heavy WIMP effective theory

The discovery of a Standard Model-like Higgs boson and the hitherto absence of evidence for other new states may indicate that if WIMPs comprise cosmological dark matter, they are heavy compared to electroweak scale particles, $M \gg…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-06-06 Richard J. Hill , Mikhail P. Solon

Nuclear structure factors for general spin-independent WIMP-nucleus scattering

We present nuclear structure factors that describe the generalized spin-independent coupling of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) to nuclei. Our results are based on state-of-the-art nuclear structure calculations using the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-04-01 Martin Hoferichter , Philipp Klos , Javier Menéndez , Achim Schwenk

Silicon detector results from the first five-tower run of CDMS II

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…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-17 CDMS Collaboration , R. Agnese , Z. Ahmed , A. J. Anderson , S. Arrenberg , D. Balakishiyeva , R. Basu Thakur , D. A. Bauer , A. Borgland , D. Brandt , P. L. Brink , T. Bruch , R. Bunker , B. Cabrera , D. O. Caldwell , D. G. Cerdeno , H. Chagani , J. Cooley , B. Cornell , C. H. Crewdson , P. Cushman , M. Daal , F. Dejongh , P. C. F. Di Stefano , E. do Couto e Silva , T. Doughty , L. Esteban , S. Fallows , E. Figueroa-Feliciano , J. Filippini , J. Fox , M. Fritts , G. L. Godfrey , S. R. Golwala , J. Hall , R. H. Harris , S. A. Hertel , T. Hofer , D. Holmgren , L. Hsu , M. E. Huber , A. Jastram , O. Kamaev , B. Kara , M. H. Kelsey , A. Kennedy , P. Kim , M. Kiveni , K. Koch , M. Kos , S. W. Leman , E. Lopez-Asamar , R. Mahapatra , V. Mandic , C. Martinez , K. A. McCarthy , N. Mirabolfathi , R. A. Moffatt , D. C. Moore , P. Nadeau , R. H. Nelson , K. Page , R. Partridge , M. Pepin , A. Phipps , K. Prasad , M. Pyle , H. Qiu , W. Rau , P. Redl , A. Reisetter , Y. Ricci , T. Saab , B. Sadoulet , J. Sander , K. Schneck , R. W. Schnee , S. Scorza , B. Serfass , B. Shank , D. Speller , K. M. Sundqvist , A. N. Villano , B. Welliver , D. H. Wright , S. Yellin , J. J. Yen , J. Yoo , B. A. Young , J. Zhan

DAMA/LIBRA-phase2 in WIMP effective models

The DAMA/LIBRA collaboration has recently released updated results from their search for the annual modulation signal expected from Dark Matter (DM) scattering in their NaI detectors. We have fitted the updated DAMA result for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-07-10 Sunghyun Kang , Stefano Scopel , Gaurav Tomar , Jong-Hyun Yoon

Determining the bubble nucleation efficiency of low-energy nuclear recoils in superheated C$_3$F$_8$ dark matter detectors

The bubble nucleation efficiency of low-energy nuclear recoils in superheated liquids plays a crucial role in interpreting results from direct searches for weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter. The PICO Collaboration…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-04-15 B. Ali , I. J. Arnquist , D. Baxter , E. Behnke , M. Bressler , B. Broerman , K. Clark , J. I. Collar , P. S. Cooper , C. Cripe , M. Crisler , C. E. Dahl , M. Das , D. Durnford , S. Fallows , J. Farine , R. Filgas , A. García-Viltres , F. Girard , G. Giroux , O. Harris , E. W. Hoppe , C. M. Jackson , M. Jin , C. B. Krauss , V. Kumar , M. Lafreniere , M. Laurin , I. Lawson , A. Leblanc , H. Leng , I. Levine , C. Licciardi , S. Linden , P. Mitra , V. Monette , C. Moore , R. Neilson , A. J. Noble , H. Nozard , S. Pal , M. -C. Piro , A. Plante , S. Priya , C. Rethmeier , A. E. Robinson , J. Savoie , O. Scallon , A. Sonnenschein , N. Starinski , I. Štekl , D. Tiwari , F. Tardif , E. Vázquez-Jáuregui , U. Wichoski , V. Zacek , J. Zhang

Beyond WIMPs: the Quark (Anti) Nugget Dark Matter

We review a testable dark matter (DM) model outside of the standard WIMP paradigm. The model is unique in a sense that the observed ratio $\Omega_{\rm dark} \simeq \Omega_{\rm visible}$ for visible and dark matter densities finds its…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-04-05 Ariel Zhitnitsky

The Direct and Indirect Detection of Weakly Interacting Dark Matter Particles

An ever-increasing body of evidence suggests that weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) constitute the bulk of the matter in the Universe. Experimental data, dimensional analysis and Standard Model particle physics are sufficient to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Halzen

The Present and Future of Searching for Dark Matter with LUX and LZ

The LUX collaboration new results advance the search for dark matter candidate particles in the 4 GeV/c^2 and higher mass range, with a maximal spin-independent 90% C.L. limit of 2 x 10^-46 cm^2 at 50 GeV/c^2 for its 332 live-day run,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-15 M. Szydagis

A simulation-based study of the neutron backgrounds for NaI dark matter experiments

Among the direct search experiments for weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter, the DAMA experiment observed an annual modulation signal interpreted as WIMP interactions with a significance of 9.2$\sigma$. Recently, Jonathan…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-08-26 Eunju Jeon , Yeongduk Kim