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Preliminary Limits on the WIMP-Nucleon Cross Section from the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS)

We are conducting an experiment to search for WIMPs, or weakly-interacting massive particles, in the galactic halo using terrestrial detectors. This generic class of hypothetical particles, whose properties are similar to those predicted by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 DS Akerib , PD Barnes , DA Bauer , PL Brink , B Cabrera , DO Caldwell , RM Clarke , A Da Silva , AK Davies , BL Dougherty , KD Irwin , RJ Gaitskell , SR Golwala , EE Haller , J Jochum , WB Knowlton , V Kuzminov , SW Nam , V Novikov , MJ Penn , TA Perera , RR Ross , B Sadoulet , RW Schnee , T Shutt , A Smith , AH Sonnenschein , AL Spadafora , WK Stockwell , S Yellin , BA Young

Improved Heavy Dark Matter Annihilation Search from Dwarf Galaxies with HAWC

Understanding dark matter's elusive nature is crucial for the framework of particle physics and expanding the Standard Model. This analysis utilizes the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) gamma ray Observatory to indirectly search for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-14 A. Albert , R. Alfaro , C. Alvarez , A. Andrés , E. Anita-Rangel , M. Araya , J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez , D. Avila Rojas , H. A. Ayala Solares , R. Babu , P. Bangale , E. Belmont-Moreno , A. Bernal , K. S. Caballero-Mora , T. Capistrán , A. Carramiñana , F. Carreón , S. Casanova , A. L. Colmenero-Cesar , U. Cotti , J. Cotzomi , S. Coutiño de León , E. De la Fuente , C. de León , P. Desiati , N. Di Lalla , R. Diaz Hernandez , M. A. DuVernois , J. C. Díaz-Vélez , K. Engel , T. Ergin , C. Espinoza , N. Fraija , S. Fraija , A. Galván-Gámez , J. A. García-González , F. Garfias , N. Ghosh , A. Gonzalez Muñoz , M. M. González , J. A. González , J. A. Goodman , J. Gyeong , J. P. Harding , S. Hernández-Cadena , I. Herzog , D. Huang , F. Hueyotl-Zahuantitla , P. Hüntemeyer , A. Iriarte , S. Kaufmann , D. Kieda , K. Leavitt , W. H. Lee , J. Lee , H. León Vargas , J. T. Linnemann , A. L. Longinotti , G. Luis-Raya , C. Lundy , K. Malone , O. Martinez , J. Martínez-Castro , H. Martínez-Huerta , J. A. Matthews , P. Miranda-Romagnoli , P. E. Mirón-Enriquez , J. A. Morales-Soto , E. Moreno , M. Mostafá , M. Najafi , A. Nayerhoda , L. Nellen , M. U. Nisa , R. Noriega-Papaqui , N. Omodei , E. Ponce , Y. Pérez Araujo , E. G. Pérez-Pérez , C. D. Rho , A. Rodriguez Parra , D. Rosa-González , M. Roth , H. Salazar , D. Salazar-Gallegos , A. Sandoval , M. Schneider , J. Serna-Franco , M. Shin , A. J. Smith , Y. Son , R. W. Springer , O. Tibolla , K. Tollefson , I. Torres , R. Torres-Escobedo , F. Ureña-Mena , E. Varela , L. Villaseñor , X. Wang , Z. Wang , I. J. Watson , H. Wu , S. Yu , X. Zhang , H. Zhou

A Strategy for Low-Mass Dark Matter Searches with Cryogenic Detectors in the SuperCDMS SNOLAB Facility

The SuperCDMS Collaboration is currently building SuperCDMS SNOLAB, a dark matter search focused on nucleon-coupled dark matter in the 1-5 GeV/c$^2$ mass range. Looking to the future, the Collaboration has developed a set of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-04-04 SuperCDMS Collaboration , M. F. Albakry , I. Alkhatib , D. W. P. Amaral , T. Aralis , T. Aramaki , I. J. Arnquist , I. Ataee Langroudy , E. Azadbakht , S. Banik , C. Bathurst , D. A. Bauer , R. Bhattacharyya , P. L. Brink , R. Bunker , B. Cabrera , R. Calkins , R. A. Cameron , C. Cartaro , D. G. Cerdeno , Y. -Y. Chang , M. Chaudhuri , R. Chen , N. Chott , J. Cooley , H. Coombes , J. Corbett , P. Cushman , F. De Brienne , S. Dharani , M. L. di Vacri , M. D. Diamond , E. Fascione , E. Figueroa-Feliciano , C. W. Fink , K. Fouts , M. Fritts , G. Gerbier , R. Germond , M. Ghaith , S. R. Golwala , J. Hall , N. Hassan , B. A. Hines , M. I. Hollister , Z. Hong , E. W. Hoppe , L. Hsu , M. E. Huber , V. Iyer , A. Jastram , V. K. S. Kashyap , M. H. Kelsey , A. Kubik , N. A. Kurinsky , R. E. Lawrence , M. Lee , A. Li , J. Liu , Y. Liu , B. Loer , P. Lukens , D. B. MacFarlane , R. Mahapatra , V. Mandic , N. Mast , A. J. Mayer , H. Meyer zu Theenhausen , E. Michaud , E. Michielin , N. Mirabolfathi , B. Mohanty , S. Nagorny , J. Nelson , H. Neog , V. Novati , J. L. Orrell , M. D. Osborne , S. M. Oser , W. A. Page , R. Partridge , D. S. Pedreros , R. Podviianiuk , F. Ponce , S. Poudel , A. Pradeep , M. Pyle , W. Rau , E. Reid , R. Ren , T. Reynolds , A. Roberts , A. E. Robinson , T. Saab , B. Sadoulet , I. Saikia , J. Sander , A. Sattari , B. Schmidt , R. W. Schnee , S. Scorza , B. Serfass , S. S. Poudel , D. J. Sincavage , C. Stanford , J. Street , H. Sun , F. K. Thasrawala , D. Toback , R. Underwood , S. Verma , A. N. Villano , B. von Krosigk , S. L. Watkins , O. Wen , Z. Williams , M. J. Wilson , J. Winchell , K. Wyko , S. Yellin , B. A. Young , T. C. Yu , B. Zatschler , S. Zatschler , A. Zaytsev , E. Zhang , L. Zheng , S. Zuber

Dark matter search in a Beam-Dump eXperiment (BDX) at Jefferson Lab

MeV-GeV dark matter (DM) is theoretically well motivated but remarkably unexplored. This proposal presents the MeV-GeV DM discovery potential for a $\sim$1 m$^3$ segmented CsI(Tl) scintillator detector placed downstream of the Hall A…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-07-07 M. Battaglieri , A. Bersani , B. Caiffi , A. Celentano , R. De Vita , E. Fanchini , L. Marsicano , P. Musico , M. Osipenko , F. Panza , M. Ripani , E. Santopinto , M. Taiuti , V. Bellini , M. Bondí , M. De Napoli , F. Mammoliti , E. Leonora , N. Randazzo , G. Russo , M. Sperduto , C. Sutera , F. Tortorici , N. Baltzell , M. Dalton , A. Freyberger , F. X. Girod , V. Kubarovsky , E. Pasyuk , E. S. Smith , S. Stepanyan , M. Ungaro , T. Whitlatch , E. Izaguirre , G. Krnjaic , D. Snowden-Ifft , D. Loomba , M. Carpinelli , V. Sipala , P. Schuster , N. Toro , R. Essig , M. H. Wood , M. Holtrop , R. Paremuzyan , G. De Cataldo , R. De Leo , D. Di Bari , L. Lagamba , E. Nappi , R. Perrino , I. Balossino , L. Barion , G. Ciullo , M. Contalbrigo , P. Lenisa , A. Movsisyan , F. Spizzo , M. Turisini , F. De Persio , E. Cisbani , F. Garibaldi , F. Meddi , G. M. Urciuoli , D. Hasch , V. Lucherini , M. Mirazita , S. Pisano , G. Simi , A. D'Angelo , L. Lanza , A. Rizzo , C. Schaerf , I. Zonta , A. Filippi , S. Fegan , M. Kunkel , M. Bashkanov , P. Beltrame , A. Murphy , G. Smith , D. Watts , N. Zachariou , L. Zana , D. Glazier , D. Ireland , B. McKinnon , D. Sokhan , L. Colaneri , S. Anefalos Pereira , A. Afanasev , B. Briscoe , I. Strakovsky , N. Kalantarians , L. Weinstein , K. P. Adhikari , J. A. Dunne , D. Dutta , L. El Fassi , L. Ye , K. Hicks , P. Cole , S. Dobbs , C. Fanelli

A new methodology for direct detection of heavy dark matter at intense particle beam facilities

We propose new concepts for experiments in which intense high energy photon or muon beams are employed parasitically to detect scattering by cosmic heavy weakly interacting dark matter (DM) particles. We show that the scattering…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-04 A. Acar , M. Bashkanov , D. P. Watts

Confirmation of the spectral excess in DAMIC at SNOLAB with skipper CCDs

We present results from a 3.25 kg-day target exposure of two silicon charge-coupled devices (CCDs), each with 24 megapixels and skipper readout, deployed in the DAMIC setup at SNOLAB. With a reduction in pixel readout noise of a factor of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-28 A. Aguilar-Arevalo , I. Arnquist , N. Avalos , L. Barak , D. Baxter , X. Bertou , I. M. Bloch , A. M. Botti , M. Cababie , G. Cancelo , N. Castelló-Mor , B. A. Cervantes-Vergara , A. E. Chavarria , J. Cortabitarte-Gutiérrez , M. Crisler , J. Cuevas-Zepeda , A. Dastgheibi-Fard , C. De Dominicis , O. Deligny , A. Drlica-Wagner , J. Duarte-Campderros , J. C. D'Olivo , R. Essig , E. Estrada , J. Estrada , E. Etzion , F. Favela-Perez , N. Gadola , R. Gaïor , S. E. Holland , T. Hossbach , L. Iddir , B. Kilminster , Y. Korn , A. Lantero-Barreda , I. Lawson , S. Lee , A. Letessier-Selvon , P. Loaiza , A. Lopez-Virto , S. Luoma , E. Marrufo-Villalpando , K. J. McGuire , G. F. Moroni , S. Munagavalasa , D. Norcini , A. Orly , G. Papadopoulos , S. Paul , S. E. Perez , A. Piers , P. Privitera , P. Robmann , D. Rodrigues , N. A. Saffold , S. Scorza , M. Settimo , A. Singal , R. Smida , M. Sofo-Haro , L. Stefanazzi , K. Stifter , J. Tiffenberg , M. Traina , S. Uemura , I. Vila , R. Vilar , T. Volansky , G. Warot , R. Yajur , T-T. Yu , J-P. Zopounidis

Searches for Top-associated Dark Matter Production at the LHC

Recent searches for dark matter (DM) produced in association with top quarks from the ATLAS and CMS experiments using data collected between 2015 and 2018 are presented. These comprise searches from both experiments for DM in association…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-01-13 Dominic Stafford

The Argon Dark Matter Experiment

The ArDM experiment, a 1 ton liquid argon TPC/Calorimeter, is designed for the detection of dark matter particles which can scatter off the spinless argon nucleus, producing nuclear recoils. These events will be discerned by their light to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2010-03-26 Christian Regenfus

Dark matter searches with mono-photon signature at future e$^+$e$^-$ colliders

As any e$^+$e$^-$ scattering process can be accompanied by a hard photon emission from the initial state radiation, the analysis of the energy spectrum and angular distributions of those photons can be used to search for hard processes with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-28 Jan Kalinowski , Wojciech Kotlarski , Krzysztof Mekala , Pawel Sopicki , Aleksander Filip Zarnecki

Silicon Detector Dark Matter Results from the Final Exposure of CDMS II

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…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2013-10-15 CDMS Collaboration , R. Agnese , Z. Ahmed , A. J. Anderson , S. Arrenberg , D. Balakishiyeva , R. Basu Thakur , D. A. Bauer , J. Billard , 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 , 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 , B. Loer , 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. Zhang

Micromegas for dark matter searches: CAST/IAXO & TREX-DM

The most compelling candidates for Dark Matter to day are WIMPs and axions. The applicability of gasesous Time Projection Chambers (TPCs) with Micromesh Gas Structures (Micromegas) to the search of these particles is explored within this…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-09-22 J. G. Garza , S. Aune , J. F. Castel , S. Cebrián , T. Dafni , E. Ferrer-Ribas , J. Galán , J. A. García , I. Giomataris , F. J. Iguaz , I. G. Irastorza , G. Luzón , H. Mirallas , T. Papaevangelou , A. Peiró , A. Tomás , T. Vafeiadis

Measuring Relic Abundance of Minimal Dark Matter at Hadron Colliders

We consider the special case that the dark matter (DM) candidate is not detected in direct-detection programs when the experimental sensitivity reaches the neutrino flux background. In such circumstance the DM searches at the colliders…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-10-18 Qing-Hong Cao , Ti Gong , Ke-Pan Xie , Zhen Zhang

Results from the DM-Ice17 Dark Matter Experiment at the South Pole

DM-Ice is a phased experimental program using low-background NaI(Tl) crystals with the aim to unambiguously test the claim of dark matter detection by the DAMA experiments. DM-Ice17, consisting of 17 kg of NaI(Tl), has been continuously…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-14 Jay Hyun Jo

Directional Detection of Dark Matter with MIMAC

Directional detection is a promising search strategy to discover galactic Dark Matter. We present a Bayesian analysis framework dedicated to Dark Matter phenomenology using directional detection. The interest of directional detection as a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 J. Billard , F. Mayet , D. Santos

Laser induced Compton Scattering to Dark Matter in Effective Field Theory

The detection of light dark matter (DM) is a longstanding challenge in terrestrial experiments. High-intensity facility of an intense electromagnetic field may provide a plausible strategy to study strong-field particle physics and search…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-03 Kai Ma , Tong Li

WIMP Dark Matter Search using a 3.1 Tonne-Year Exposure of the XENONnT Experiment

We report on a search for weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter (DM) via elastic DM-xenon-nucleus interactions in the XENONnT experiment. We combine datasets from the first and second science campaigns resulting in a total…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-12-18 E. Aprile , J. Aalbers , K. Abe , S. Ahmed Maouloud , L. Althueser , B. Andrieu , E. Angelino , D. Antón Martin , S. R. Armbruster , F. Arneodo , L. Baudis , M. Bazyk , L. Bellagamba , R. Biondi , A. Bismark , K. Boese , A. Brown , G. Bruno , R. Budnik , C. Cai , C. Capelli , 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 , A. Deisting , C. Di Donato , P. Di Gangi , S. Diglio , K. Eitel , S. el Morabit , A. Elykov , A. D. Ferella , C. Ferrari , H. Fischer , T. Flehmke , M. Flierman , D. Fuchs , W. Fulgione , C. Fuselli , P. Gaemers , R. Gaior , F. Gao , S. Ghosh , R. Giacomobono , F. Girard , R. Glade-Beucke , L. Grandi , J. Grigat , H. Guan , M. Guida , P. Gyorgy , 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 , P. Kharbanda , M. Kobayashi , D. Koke , K. Kooshkjalali , A. Kopec , H. Landsman , R. F. Lang , L. Levinson , I. Li , S. Li , S. Liang , Z. Liang , Y. -T. Lin , S. Lindemann , M. Lindner , K. Liu , M. Liu , J. Loizeau , F. Lombardi , J. Long , J. A. M. Lopes , G. M. Lucchetti , T. Luce , Y. Ma , C. Macolino , J. Mahlstedt , A. Mancuso , L. Manenti , F. Marignetti , T. Marrodán Undagoitia , K. Martens , J. Masbou , S. Mastroianni , A. Melchiorre , J. Merz , 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 , A. Ravindran , A. Razeto , R. Singh , L. Sanchez , J. M. F. dos Santos , I. Sarnoff , G. Sartorelli , J. Schreiner , 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. Stevens , C. Szyszka , A. Takeda , Y. Takeuchi , P. -L. Tan , D. Thers , 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 , J. Yang , L. Yang , J. Ye , L. Yuan , G. Zavattini , Y. Zhao , M. Zhong

Dark sector searches with the CMS experiment

Astrophysical observations provide compelling evidence for gravitationally interacting dark matter in the universe that cannot be explained by the standard model of particle physics. The extraordinary amount of data from the CERN LHC…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-04-08 CMS Collaboration

Planned Dark Matter searches with the MAGIC Telescope

The MAGIC 17m-diameter Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescope (IACT) has been commissioned beginning of 2005. The telescope has been designed to achieve the lower detection energy threshold ever obtained with an IACT, about 50 GeV. A new window in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Flix

Dark Matter Attenuation Effects: Sensitivity Ceilings for Spin-Dependent and Spin-Independent Interactions

Direct detection experiments aimed at uncovering the elusive nature of dark matter (DM) have made significant progress in probing ever lower cross-sections for DM-nucleon interactions. At the same time, an upper limit in the cross-section…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-11 DMC Collaboration , N. Darvishi , J. Smirnov , S. Autti , L. Bloomfield , A. Casey , N. Eng , P. Franchini , R. P. Haley , P. J. Heikkinen , A. Jennings , A. Kemp , E. Leason , J. March-Russell , A. Mayer , J. Monroe , D. Munstermann , M. T. Noble , J. R. Prance , X. Rojas , T. Salmon , J. Saunders , R. Smith , M. D. Thompson , A. Thomson , A. Ting , V. Tsepelin , S. M. West , L. Whitehead , D. E. Zmeev

Hunting for Dark Matter Coannihilation by Mixing Dijet Resonances and Missing Transverse Energy

Simplified models of the dark matter (co)annihilation mechanism predict striking new collider signatures untested by current searches. These models, which were codified in the coannihilation codex, provide the basis for a dark matter (DM)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-10-12 Malte Buschmann , Sonia El Hedri , Anna Kaminska , Jia Liu , Maikel de Vries , Xiao-Ping Wang , Felix Yu , Jose Zurita