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Results of direct dark matter detection with CDEX experiment at CJPL

The China Dark Matter Experiment (CDEX), located at the China Jinping Underground Laboratory (CJPL) whose overburden is about 2400m rock, aims at direct searches of light Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs). A single-element…

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Estimating the Spin-Independent WIMP-Nucleon Coupling from Direct Dark Matter Detection Data

Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) are one of the leading candidates for Dark Matter. For understanding the nature of WIMPs and identifying them among new particles produced at colliders (hopefully in the near future),…

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Improvement of the Determination of the WIMP Mass from Direct Dark Matter Detection Data

Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) are one of the leading candidates for Dark Matter. We developed a model-independent method for determining the WIMP mass by using data (i.e., measured recoil energies) of direct detection…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-02-02 Manuel Drees , Chung-Lin Shan

Direct detection data and possible hints for low-mass WIMPs

Possible hints for WIMP dark matter with mass around 10 GeV coming from the DAMA, CoGeNT, and maybe also CRESST experiments are presented, and confronted with constraints from CDMS and XENON data. Focusing on spin-independent (SI)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-29 Thomas Schwetz

Results of Dark Matter Search using the Full PandaX-II Exposure

We report the dark matter search results obtained using the full 132 ton$\cdot$day exposure of the PandaX-II experiment, including all data from March 2016 to August 2018. No significant excess of events is identified above the expected…

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Constraining the Spin-Independent WIMP-Nucleon Coupling from Direct Dark Matter Detection Data

Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) are one of the leading candidates for Dark Matter. For understanding the properties of WIMPs and identifying them among new particles produced at colliders (hopefully in the near future),…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-02-17 Manuel Drees , Chung-Lin Shan

Improved constraints on WIMPs from the International Germanium Experiment IGEX

One IGEX 76Ge double-beta decay detector is currently operating in the Canfranc Underground Laboratory in a search for dark matter WIMPs, through the Ge nuclear recoil produced by the WIMP elastic scattering. A new exclusion plot, has been…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Morales , C. E. Aalseth , F. T. Avignone , R. L. Brodzinski , S. Cebrian , E. Garcia , I. G. Irastorza , I. V. Kirpichnikov , A. A. Klimenko , H. S. Miley , J. Morales , A. Ortiz de Solorzano , S. B. Osetrov , V. S. Pogosov , J. Puimedon , J. H. Reeves , M. L. Sarsa , A. A. Smolnikov , A. G. Tamanyan , A. A. Vasenko , S. I. Vasiliev , J. A. Villar

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…

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EDELWEISS-II Dark Matter Search : status and first results

The EDELWEISS II experiment is devoted to the search for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMP) that would constitute the Dark Matter halo of our Galaxy. For this purpose, the experiment uses cryogenic germanium detectors, cooled down…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Veronique Sanglard

First experimental constraints on WIMP couplings in the effective field theory framework from CDEX

We present weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) search results performed using two approaches of effective field theory from the China Dark Matter Experiment (CDEX), based on the data from both CDEX-1B and CDEX-10 stages. In the…

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A New Model-Independent Method for Extracting Spin-Dependent Cross Section Limits from Dark Matter Searches

A new method is proposed for extracting limits on spin-dependent WIMP-nucleon interaction cross sections from direct detection dark matter experiments. The new method has the advantage that the limits on individual WIMP-proton and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 D. R. Tovey , R. J. Gaitskell , P. Gondolo , Y. Ramachers , L. Roszkowski

Maximum Likelihood Analysis of Low Energy CDMS II Germanium Data

We report on the results of a search for a Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP) signal in low-energy data of the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS~II) experiment using a maximum likelihood analysis. A background model is constructed…

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Physics performance for Dark Matter searches at $\sqrt{s}=$ 3 TeV at CLIC using mono-photons and polarised beams

The potential for detecting DM at the Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) is investigated at \mbox{$\sqrt{s}=$ 3 TeV}. The sensitivity of the search is estimated by computing the 95\% confidence level upper limit cross section as a function of…

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Constraints on Spin-Independent Nucleus Scattering with sub-GeV Weakly Interacting Massive Particle Dark Matter from the CDEX-1B Experiment at the China Jin-Ping Laboratory

We report results on the searches of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) with sub-GeV masses ($m_{\chi}$) via WIMP-nucleus spin-independent scattering with Migdal effect incorporated. Analysis on time-integrated (TI) and annual…

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Cryogenic Composite Detectors for the Dark Matter Experiments CRESST and EURECA

Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) are candidates for non-baryonic Dark Matter. WIMPs are supposed to interact with baryonic matter via scattering off nuclei producing a nuclear recoil with energies up to a few 10 keV with a very…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-10-03 S. Roth , C. Ciemniak , C. Coppi , F. v. Feilitzsch , A. Guetlein , C. Isaila , J. -C. Lanfranchi , S. Pfister , W. Potzel , W. Westphal

Indirect detection, direct detection, and collider detection cross-sections for a 70 GeV dark matter WIMP

Assuming a dark matter fraction $\Omega_{DM} = 0.27$ and a reduced Hubble constant $h = 0.73$, we obtain a value of 70 GeV/c$^2$ for the mass of the dark matter WIMP we have previously proposed. We also obtain a value for the annihilation…

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Constraints on Scalar Dark Matter from Direct Experimental Searches

The standard model (SM) plus a real gauge-singlet scalar field dubbed darkon (SM+D) is the simplest model possessing a weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark-matter candidate. The upper limits for the WIMP-nucleon elastic…

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Low mass WIMP search with EDELWEISS-III: First Results

We present the first search for low mass WIMPs using the Germanium bolometers of the EDELWEISS-III experiment. Upgrades to the detectors and the electronics enhance the background discrimination and the low energy sensitivity with respect…

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Dark Matter Results from First 98.7-day Data of PandaX-II Experiment

We report the WIMP dark matter search results using the first physics-run data of the PandaX-II 500 kg liquid xenon dual-phase time-projection chamber, operating at the China JinPing Underground Laboratory. No dark matter candidate is…

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Present and projected sensitivities of Dark Matter direct detection experiments to effective WIMP-nucleus couplings

Assuming for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) a Maxwellian velocity distribution in the Galaxy we explore in a systematic way the relative sensitivity of an extensive set of existing and projected Dark Matter (DM) direct…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-03-01 Sunghyun Kang , Stefano Scopel , Gaurav Tomar , Jong-Hyun Yoon