CRESST is a direct dark matter search experiment, aiming for an observation of nuclear recoils induced by the interaction of dark matter particles with cryogenic scintillating calcium tungstate crystals. Instead of confining ourselves to standard spin-independent and spin-dependent searches, we re-analyze data from CRESST-II using a more general effective field theory (EFT) framework. On many of the EFT coupling constants, improved exclusion limits in the low-mass region (< 3-4 GeV) are presented.
@article{arxiv.1809.03753,
title = {Limits on Dark Matter Effective Field Theory Parameters with CRESST-II},
author = {G. Angloher and P. Bauer and A. Bento and E. Bertoldo and C. Bucci and L. Canonica and A. D'Addabbo and X. Defay and S. Di Lorenzo and A. Erb and F. v. Feilitzsch and N. Ferreiro Iachellini and P. Gorla and D. Hauff and J. Jochum and M. Kiefer and H. Kluck and H. Kraus and A. Langenkämper and M. Mancuso and V. Mokina and E. Mondragon and V. Morgalyuk and A. Münster and M. Olmi and C. Pagliarone and F. Petricca and W. Potzel and F. Pröbst and F. Reindl and J. Rothe and K. Schäffner and J. Schieck and V. Schipperges and S. Schönert and M. Stahlberg and L. Stodolsky and C. Strandhagen and R. Strauss and C. Türkoglu and I. Usherov and M. Willers and M. Wüstrich and V. Zema and R. Catena},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.03753},
year = {2019}
}