CDMSlite：在 SuperCDMS 实验中利用电压辅助量热电离探测搜索低质量 WIMP
仪器与探测器
2014-02-05 v3 宇宙学与河外天体物理
天体物理仪器与方法
高能物理 - 实验
摘要
SuperCDMS 是一项旨在直接探测弱相互作用大质量粒子 (WIMP) 的实验，WIMP 是宇宙中普遍存在的暗物质候选者之一。在本文中，我们展示了使用一种称为 CDMSlite 的量热技术的 WIMP 搜索结果，该技术依赖于电压辅助的 Luke-Neganov 放大由粒子相互作用沉积的电离能。数据是在 Soudan 地下实验室使用单个 0.6 kg 锗探测器运行 10 个有效天收集的。获得了 170 eVee（电子等效）的低能量阈值，这使我们能够约束质量低于 6 GeV/c 的 WIMP 的新的 WIMP-核子自旋无关参数空间。
引用
@article{arxiv.1309.3259,
title = {CDMSlite: A Search for Low-Mass WIMPs using Voltage-Assisted Calorimetric Ionization Detection in the SuperCDMS Experiment},
author = {R. Agnese and A. J. Anderson and M. Asai and D. Balakishiyeva and R. Basu Thakur and D. A. Bauer and J. Billard and A. Borgland and M. A. Bowles and D. Brandt and P. L. Brink and R. Bunker and B. Cabrera and D. O. Caldwell and D. G. Cerdeno and H. Chagani and J. Cooley and B. Cornell and C. H. Crewdson and P. Cushman and M. Daal and P. C. F. Di Stefano and T. Doughty and L. Esteban and S. Fallows and E. Figueroa-Feliciano and G. L. Godfrey and S. R. Golwala and J. Hall and H. R. Harris and S. A. Hertel and T. Hofer and D. Holmgren and L. Hsu and M. E. Huber and A. Jastram and O. Kamaev and B. Kara and M. H. Kelsey and A. Kennedy and M. Kiveni and K. Koch and B. Loer and E. Lopez Asamar and R. Mahapatra and V. Mandic and C. Martinez and K. A. McCarthy and N. Mirabolfathi and R. A. Moffatt and D. C. Moore and P. Nadeau and R. H. Nelson and K. Page and R. Partridge and M. Pepin and A. Phipps and K. Prasad and M. Pyle and H. Qiu and W. Rau and P. Redl and A. Reisetter and Y. Ricci and T. Saab and B. Sadoulet and J. Sander and K. Schneck and R. W. Schnee and S. Scorza and B. Serfass and B. Shank and D. Speller and A. N. Villano and B. Welliver and D. H. Wright and S. Yellin and J. J. Yen and B. A. Young and J. Zhang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1309.3259},
year = {2014}
}
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7 pages, 4 figures