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Arnquist I, Avalos N, Baxter D, Bertou X, Castelló-Mor N, Chavarria AE, Cuevas-Zepeda J, Dastgheibi-Fard A, De Dominicis C, Deligny O, Duarte-Campderros J, Estrada E, Gadola N, Gaïor R, Hossbach T, Iddir L, Kavanagh BJ, Kilminster B, Lantero-Barreda A, Lawson I, Lee S, Letessier-Selvon A, Loaiza P, Lopez-Virto A, McGuire KJ, Mitra P, Munagavalasa S, Norcini D, Paul S, Piers A, Privitera P, Robmann P, Scorza S, Settimo M, Smida R, Traina M, Vilar R, Warot G, Yajur R, Zopounidis JP. Search for Daily Modulation of MeV Dark Matter Signals with DAMIC-M. Phys Rev Lett 2024; 132:101006. [PMID: 38518351 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.132.101006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2023] [Revised: 11/07/2023] [Accepted: 02/07/2024] [Indexed: 03/24/2024]
Abstract
Dark matter (DM) particles with sufficiently large cross sections may scatter as they travel through Earth's bulk. The corresponding changes in the DM flux give rise to a characteristic daily modulation signal in detectors sensitive to DM-electron interactions. Here, we report results obtained from the first underground operation of the DAMIC-M prototype detector searching for such a signal from DM with MeV-scale mass. A model-independent analysis finds no modulation in the rate of 1 e^{-} events with sidereal period, where a DM signal would appear. We then use these data to place exclusion limits on DM in the mass range [0.53,2.7] MeV/c^{2} interacting with electrons via a dark photon mediator. Taking advantage of the time-dependent signal we improve by ∼2 orders of magnitude on our previous limit obtained from the total rate of 1 e^{-} events, using the same dataset. This daily modulation search represents the current strongest limit on DM-electron scattering via ultralight mediators for DM masses around 1 MeV/c^{2}.
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- I Arnquist
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, Washington, USA
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- Centro Atómico Bariloche and Instituto Balseiro, Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica (CNEA), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Universidad Nacional de Cuyo (UNCUYO), San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina
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- Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics and The Enrico Fermi Institute, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Centro Atómico Bariloche and Instituto Balseiro, Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica (CNEA), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Universidad Nacional de Cuyo (UNCUYO), San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina
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- Instituto de Física de Cantabria (IFCA), CSIC-Universidad de Cantabria, Santander, Spain
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- Center for Experimental Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics and The Enrico Fermi Institute, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Laboratoire de physique nucléaire et des hautes énergies (LPNHE), Sorbonne Université, Université Paris Cité, CNRS/IN2P3, Paris, France
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- CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France
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- Instituto de Física de Cantabria (IFCA), CSIC-Universidad de Cantabria, Santander, Spain
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- Centro Atómico Bariloche and Instituto Balseiro, Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica (CNEA), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Universidad Nacional de Cuyo (UNCUYO), San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina
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- Universität Zürich Physik Institut, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Laboratoire de physique nucléaire et des hautes énergies (LPNHE), Sorbonne Université, Université Paris Cité, CNRS/IN2P3, Paris, France
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, Washington, USA
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- Laboratoire de physique nucléaire et des hautes énergies (LPNHE), Sorbonne Université, Université Paris Cité, CNRS/IN2P3, Paris, France
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- Instituto de Física de Cantabria (IFCA), CSIC-Universidad de Cantabria, Santander, Spain
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- Universität Zürich Physik Institut, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Instituto de Física de Cantabria (IFCA), CSIC-Universidad de Cantabria, Santander, Spain
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- Universität Zürich Physik Institut, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Laboratoire de physique nucléaire et des hautes énergies (LPNHE), Sorbonne Université, Université Paris Cité, CNRS/IN2P3, Paris, France
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- CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France
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- Instituto de Física de Cantabria (IFCA), CSIC-Universidad de Cantabria, Santander, Spain
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- Center for Experimental Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Center for Experimental Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics and The Enrico Fermi Institute, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics and The Enrico Fermi Institute, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics and The Enrico Fermi Institute, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Center for Experimental Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics and The Enrico Fermi Institute, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Laboratoire de physique nucléaire et des hautes énergies (LPNHE), Sorbonne Université, Université Paris Cité, CNRS/IN2P3, Paris, France
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- Universität Zürich Physik Institut, Zürich, Switzerland
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- LPSC LSM, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Grenoble-Alpes, Grenoble, France
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- SUBATECH, Nantes Université, IMT Atlantique, CNRS/IN2P3, Nantes, France
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- Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics and The Enrico Fermi Institute, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Center for Experimental Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
- Laboratoire de physique nucléaire et des hautes énergies (LPNHE), Sorbonne Université, Université Paris Cité, CNRS/IN2P3, Paris, France
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- Instituto de Física de Cantabria (IFCA), CSIC-Universidad de Cantabria, Santander, Spain
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- LPSC LSM, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Grenoble-Alpes, Grenoble, France
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- Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics and The Enrico Fermi Institute, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Laboratoire de physique nucléaire et des hautes énergies (LPNHE), Sorbonne Université, Université Paris Cité, CNRS/IN2P3, Paris, France
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Augier C, Baulieu G, Belov V, Bergé L, Billard J, Bres G, Bret J.L, Broniatowski A, Calvo M, Cazes A, Chaize D, Chala M, Chapellier M, Chaplinsky L, Chemin G, Chen R, Colas J, Cudmore E, De Jesus M, de Marcillac P, Dumoulin L, Exshaw O, Ferriol S, Figueroa-Feliciano E, Filippini JB, Formaggio JA, Fuard S, Gascon J, Giuliani A, Goupy J, Goy C, Guerin C, Guy E, Harrington P, Hertel SA, Heusch M, Hong Z, Ianigro JC, Jin Y, Juillard A, Karaivanov D, Kazarcev S, Lamblin J, Lattaud H, Li M, Lubashevskiy A, Marnieros S, Martini N, Mayer DW, Minet J, Monfardini A, Mounier F, Novati V, Olivieri E, Oriol C, Mateo LO, Patel PK, Perbet E, Pinckney HD, Poda DV, Ponomarev D, Rarbi F, Real JS, Redon T, Reyes FC, Robert A, Rozov S, Rozova I, Scorza S, Schmidt B, Shevchik Y, Soldner T, Stachurska J, Stutz A, Vagneron L, Van De Pontseele W, Vezzu F, Winslow L, Yakushev E, Zinatulina D. First demonstration of 30 eVee ionization energy resolution with Ricochet germanium cryogenic bolometers. Eur Phys J C Part Fields 2024; 84:186. [PMID: 38410744 PMCID: PMC10894082 DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-024-12433-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2023] [Accepted: 01/11/2024] [Indexed: 02/28/2024]
Abstract
The future Ricochet experiment aims to search for new physics in the electroweak sector by measuring the Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering process from reactor antineutrinos with high precision down to the sub-100 eV nuclear recoil energy range. While the Ricochet collaboration is currently building the experimental setup at the reactor site, it is also finalizing the cryogenic detector arrays that will be integrated into the cryostat at the Institut Laue Langevin in early 2024. In this paper, we report on recent progress from the Ge cryogenic detector technology, called the CryoCube. More specifically, we present the first demonstration of a 30 eVee (electron equivalent) baseline ionization resolution (RMS) achieved with an early design of the detector assembly and its dedicated High Electron Mobility Transistor (HEMT) based front-end electronics with a total input capacitance of about 40 pF. This represents an order of magnitude improvement over the best ionization resolutions obtained on similar phonon-and-ionization germanium cryogenic detectors from the EDELWEISS and SuperCDMS dark matter experiments, and a factor of three improvement compared to the first fully-cryogenic HEMT-based preamplifier coupled to a CDMS-II germanium detector with a total input capacitance of 250 pF. Additionally, we discuss the implications of these results in the context of the future Ricochet experiment and its expected background mitigation performance.
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Albakry MF, Alkhatib I, Alonso D, Amaral DWP, Aralis T, Aramaki T, Arnquist IJ, Ataee Langroudy I, Azadbakht E, Banik S, Bathurst C, Bhattacharyya R, Brink PL, Bunker R, Cabrera B, Calkins R, Cameron RA, Cartaro C, Cerdeño DG, Chang YY, Chaudhuri M, Chen R, Chott N, Cooley J, Coombes H, Corbett J, Cushman P, Das S, De Brienne F, Rios M, Dharani S, di Vacri ML, Diamond MD, Elwan M, Fascione E, Figueroa-Feliciano E, Fink CW, Fouts K, Fritts M, Gerbier G, Germond R, Ghaith M, Golwala SR, Hall J, Harms SAS, Hassan N, Hines BA, Hong Z, Hoppe EW, Hsu L, Huber ME, Iyer V, Kashyap VKS, Kelsey MH, Kubik A, Kurinsky NA, Lee M, Litke M, Liu J, Liu Y, Loer B, Lopez Asamar E, Lukens P, MacFarlane DB, Mahapatra R, Mast N, Mayer AJ, Meyer Zu Theenhausen H, Michaud É, Michielin E, Mirabolfathi N, Mohanty B, Nebolsky B, Nelson J, Neog H, Novati V, Orrell JL, Osborne MD, Oser SM, Page WA, Pandey L, Pandey S, Partridge R, Pedreros DS, Perna L, Podviianiuk R, Ponce F, Poudel S, Pradeep A, Pyle M, Rau W, Reid E, Ren R, Reynolds T, Tanner E, Roberts A, Robinson AE, Saab T, Sadek D, Sadoulet B, Sahoo SP, Saikia I, Sander J, Sattari A, Schmidt B, Schnee RW, Scorza S, Serfass B, Poudel SS, Sincavage DJ, Sinervo P, Speaks Z, Street J, Sun H, Terry GD, Thasrawala FK, Toback D, Underwood R, Verma S, Villano AN, von Krosigk B, Watkins SL, Wen O, Williams Z, Wilson MJ, Winchell J, Wykoff K, Yellin S, Young BA, Yu TC, Zatschler B, Zatschler S, Zaytsev A, Zeolla A, Zhang E, Zheng L, Zheng Y, Zuniga A, An P, Barbeau PS, Hedges SC, Li L, Runge J. First Measurement of the Nuclear-Recoil Ionization Yield in Silicon at 100 eV. Phys Rev Lett 2023; 131:091801. [PMID: 37721818 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.131.091801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2023] [Revised: 07/07/2023] [Accepted: 07/26/2023] [Indexed: 09/20/2023]
Abstract
We measured the nuclear-recoil ionization yield in silicon with a cryogenic phonon-sensitive gram-scale detector. Neutrons from a monoenergetic beam scatter off of the silicon nuclei at angles corresponding to energy depositions from 4 keV down to 100 eV, the lowest energy probed so far. The results show no sign of an ionization production threshold above 100 eV. These results call for further investigation of the ionization yield theory and a comprehensive determination of the detector response function at energies below the keV scale.
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- M F Albakry
- Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada
- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
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- Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A7, Canada
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- Instituto de Física Teórica UAM/CSIC, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain
- Instituto de Física Teórica UAM-CSIC, Campus de Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Physics, Durham University, Durham DH1 3LE, United Kingdom
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- Division of Physics, Mathematics, & Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
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- Department of Physics, Northeastern University, 360 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- School of Physical Sciences, National Institute of Science Education and Research, HBNI, Jatni - 752050, India
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- Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
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- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Physics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Instituto de Física Teórica UAM/CSIC, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain
- Instituto de Física Teórica UAM-CSIC, Campus de Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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- Division of Physics, Mathematics, & Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
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- School of Physical Sciences, National Institute of Science Education and Research, HBNI, Jatni - 752050, India
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3112, USA
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- Department of Physics, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, South Dakota 57701, USA
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- Department of Physics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, USA
- SNOLAB, Creighton Mine #9, 1039 Regional Road 24, Sudbury, Ontario P3Y 1N2, Canada
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- Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
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- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
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- School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- School of Physical Sciences, National Institute of Science Education and Research, HBNI, Jatni - 752050, India
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- Département de Physique, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec H3C 3J7, Canada
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- Instituto de Física Teórica UAM/CSIC, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain
- Instituto de Física Teórica UAM-CSIC, Campus de Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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- Institute for Astroparticle Physics (IAP), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
- Institut für Experimentalphysik, Universität Hamburg, 22761 Hamburg, Germany
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A7, Canada
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- Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
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- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3112, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
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- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
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- College of Natural and Health Sciences, Zayed University, Dubai, 19282, United Arab Emirates
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- Division of Physics, Mathematics, & Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
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- SNOLAB, Creighton Mine #9, 1039 Regional Road 24, Sudbury, Ontario P3Y 1N2, Canada
- Laurentian University, Department of Physics, 935 Ramsey Lake Road, Sudbury, Ontario P3E 2C6, Canada
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- Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A7, Canada
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- Département de Physique, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec H3C 3J7, Canada
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- Department of Physics, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado 80217, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A7, Canada
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado 80217, USA
- Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado 80217, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A7, Canada
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- School of Physical Sciences, National Institute of Science Education and Research, HBNI, Jatni - 752050, India
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- SNOLAB, Creighton Mine #9, 1039 Regional Road 24, Sudbury, Ontario P3Y 1N2, Canada
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- Department of Physics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, USA
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- Department of Physics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, USA
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada
- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
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- Instituto de Física Teórica UAM/CSIC, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain
- Instituto de Física Teórica UAM-CSIC, Campus de Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
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- Institute for Astroparticle Physics (IAP), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
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- Département de Physique, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec H3C 3J7, Canada
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada
- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- School of Physical Sciences, National Institute of Science Education and Research, HBNI, Jatni - 752050, India
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3112, USA
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- School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3112, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada
- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota 57069, USA
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- School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Département de Physique, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec H3C 3J7, Canada
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- Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A7, Canada
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- Department of Physics, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota 57069, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota 57069, USA
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada
- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
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- Department of Physics, Durham University, Durham DH1 3LE, United Kingdom
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3112, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A7, Canada
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- School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado 80217, USA
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- Département de Physique, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec H3C 3J7, Canada
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- Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- Department of Physics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota 57069, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A7, Canada
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3112, USA
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- Department of Physics, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, South Dakota 57701, USA
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- SNOLAB, Creighton Mine #9, 1039 Regional Road 24, Sudbury, Ontario P3Y 1N2, Canada
- Laurentian University, Department of Physics, 935 Ramsey Lake Road, Sudbury, Ontario P3E 2C6, Canada
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
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- School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A7, Canada
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- Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
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- Department of Physics, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, South Dakota 57701, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota 57069, USA
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- Institut für Experimentalphysik, Universität Hamburg, 22761 Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado 80217, USA
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- Institute for Astroparticle Physics (IAP), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Division of Physics, Mathematics, & Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
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- School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Institute for Astroparticle Physics (IAP), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- Department of Physics, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, South Dakota 57701, USA
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- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Physics, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California 95053, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A7, Canada
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- Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A7, Canada
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- Institute for Astroparticle Physics (IAP), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
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- Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A7, Canada
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3112, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A7, Canada
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- Department of Physics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA
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- Department of Physics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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- Department of Physics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA
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- Department of Physics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA
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Alkhatib I, Amaral DWP, Aralis T, Aramaki T, Arnquist IJ, Ataee Langroudy I, Azadbakht E, Banik S, Barker D, Bathurst C, Bauer DA, Bezerra LVS, Bhattacharyya R, Bowles MA, Brink PL, Bunker R, Cabrera B, Calkins R, Cameron RA, Cartaro C, Cerdeño DG, Chang YY, Chaudhuri M, Chen R, Chott N, Cooley J, Coombes H, Corbett J, Cushman P, De Brienne F, di Vacri ML, Diamond MD, Fascione E, Figueroa-Feliciano E, Fink CW, Fouts K, Fritts M, Gerbier G, Germond R, Ghaith M, Golwala SR, Harris HR, Hines BA, Hollister MI, Hong Z, Hoppe EW, Hsu L, Huber ME, Iyer V, Jardin D, Jastram A, Kashyap VKS, Kelsey MH, Kubik A, Kurinsky NA, Lawrence RE, Li A, Loer B, Lopez Asamar E, Lukens P, MacFarlane DB, Mahapatra R, Mandic V, Mast N, Mayer AJ, Meyer Zu Theenhausen H, Michaud ÉM, Michielin E, Mirabolfathi N, Mohanty B, Morales Mendoza JD, Nagorny S, Nelson J, Neog H, Novati V, Orrell JL, Oser SM, Page WA, Partridge R, Podviianiuk R, Ponce F, Poudel S, Pradeep A, Pyle M, Rau W, Reid E, Ren R, Reynolds T, Roberts A, Robinson AE, Saab T, Sadoulet B, Sander J, Sattari A, Schnee RW, Scorza S, Serfass B, Sincavage DJ, Stanford C, Street J, Toback D, Underwood R, Verma S, Villano AN, von Krosigk B, Watkins SL, Wilson JS, Wilson MJ, Winchell J, Wright DH, Yellin S, Young BA, Yu TC, Zhang E, Zhang HG, Zhao X, Zheng L. Constraints on Lightly Ionizing Particles from CDMSlite. Phys Rev Lett 2021; 127:081802. [PMID: 34477436 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.127.081802] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2020] [Revised: 06/11/2021] [Accepted: 07/27/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
Abstract
The Cryogenic Dark Matter Search low ionization threshold experiment (CDMSlite) achieved efficient detection of very small recoil energies in its germanium target, resulting in sensitivity to lightly ionizing particles (LIPs) in a previously unexplored region of charge, mass, and velocity parameter space. We report first direct-detection limits calculated using the optimum interval method on the vertical intensity of cosmogenically produced LIPs with an electric charge smaller than e/(3×10^{5}), as well as the strongest limits for charge ≤e/160, with a minimum vertical intensity of 1.36×10^{-7} cm^{-2} s^{-1} sr^{-1} at charge e/160. These results apply over a wide range of LIP masses (5 MeV/c^{2} to 100 TeV/c^{2}) and cover a wide range of βγ values (0.1-10^{6}), thus excluding nonrelativistic LIPs with βγ as small as 0.1 for the first time.
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- I Alkhatib
- Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A7, Canada
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- Department of Physics, Durham University, Durham DH1 3LE, United Kingdom
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- Division of Physics, Mathematics, & Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, D.C. 99352, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- School of Physical Sciences, National Institute of Science Education and Research, HBNI, Jatni-752050, India
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- School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada
- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- Department of Physics, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, South Dakota 57701, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, D.C. 99352, USA
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- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Physics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Department of Physics, Durham University, Durham DH1 3LE, United Kingdom
- Instituto de Física Teórica UAM/CSIC, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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- Division of Physics, Mathematics, & Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
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- School of Physical Sciences, National Institute of Science Education and Research, HBNI, Jatni-752050, India
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3112, USA
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- Department of Physics, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, South Dakota 57701, USA
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- Department of Physics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
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- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
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- School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Département de Physique, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Quebec H3C 3J7, Canada
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, D.C. 99352, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A7, Canada
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- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3112, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
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- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
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- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
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- Division of Physics, Mathematics, & Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado 80217, USA
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3112, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, D.C. 99352, USA
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado 80217, USA
- Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado 80217, USA
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- School of Physical Sciences, National Institute of Science Education and Research, HBNI, Jatni-752050, India
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- Department of Physics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- School of Physical Sciences, National Institute of Science Education and Research, HBNI, Jatni-752050, India
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada
- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, D.C. 99352, USA
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- Department of Physics, Durham University, Durham DH1 3LE, United Kingdom
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
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- Département de Physique, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Quebec H3C 3J7, Canada
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada
- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- School of Physical Sciences, National Institute of Science Education and Research, HBNI, Jatni-752050, India
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
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- School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3112, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, D.C. 99352, USA
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada
- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota 57069, USA
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- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota 57069, USA
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada
- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
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- Department of Physics, Durham University, Durham DH1 3LE, United Kingdom
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3112, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado 80217, USA
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- Département de Physique, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Quebec H3C 3J7, Canada
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- Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota 57069, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A7, Canada
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- Department of Physics, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, South Dakota 57701, USA
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- SNOLAB, Creighton Mine #9, 1039 Regional Road 24, Sudbury, Ontario P3Y 1N2, Canada
- Laurentian University, Department of Physics, 935 Ramsey Lake Road, Sudbury, Ontario P3E 2C6, Canada
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Physics, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, South Dakota 57701, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado 80217, USA
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- Institut für Experimentalphysik, Universität Hamburg, 22761 Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A7, Canada
- Institut für Experimentalphysik, Universität Hamburg, 22761 Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Physics, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California 95053, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A7, Canada
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- School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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Alkhatib I, Amaral DWP, Aralis T, Aramaki T, Arnquist IJ, Ataee Langroudy I, Azadbakht E, Banik S, Barker D, Bathurst C, Bauer DA, Bezerra LVS, Bhattacharyya R, Binder T, Bowles MA, Brink PL, Bunker R, Cabrera B, Calkins R, Cameron RA, Cartaro C, Cerdeño DG, Chang YY, Chaudhuri M, Chen R, Chott N, Cooley J, Coombes H, Corbett J, Cushman P, De Brienne F, di Vacri ML, Diamond MD, Fascione E, Figueroa-Feliciano E, Fink CW, Fouts K, Fritts M, Gerbier G, Germond R, Ghaith M, Golwala SR, Harris HR, Herbert N, Hines BA, Hollister MI, Hong Z, Hoppe EW, Hsu L, Huber ME, Iyer V, Jardin D, Jastram A, Kashyap VKS, Kelsey MH, Kubik A, Kurinsky NA, Lawrence RE, Li A, Loer B, Lopez Asamar E, Lukens P, MacDonell D, MacFarlane DB, Mahapatra R, Mandic V, Mast N, Mayer AJ, Meyer Zu Theenhausen H, Michaud ÉM, Michielin E, Mirabolfathi N, Mohanty B, Morales Mendoza JD, Nagorny S, Nelson J, Neog H, Novati V, Orrell JL, Oser SM, Page WA, Pakarha P, Partridge R, Podviianiuk R, Ponce F, Poudel S, Pyle M, Rau W, Reid E, Ren R, Reynolds T, Roberts A, Robinson AE, Saab T, Sadoulet B, Sander J, Sattari A, Schnee RW, Scorza S, Serfass B, Sincavage DJ, Stanford C, Street J, Toback D, Underwood R, Verma S, Villano AN, von Krosigk B, Watkins SL, Wills L, Wilson JS, Wilson MJ, Winchell J, Wright DH, Yellin S, Young BA, Yu TC, Zhang E, Zhang HG, Zhao X, Zheng L, Camilleri J, Kolomensky YG, Zuber S. Light Dark Matter Search with a High-Resolution Athermal Phonon Detector Operated above Ground. Phys Rev Lett 2021; 127:061801. [PMID: 34420312 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.127.061801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2020] [Revised: 05/06/2021] [Accepted: 07/08/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
Abstract
We present limits on spin-independent dark matter-nucleon interactions using a 10.6 g Si athermal phonon detector with a baseline energy resolution of σ_{E}=3.86±0.04(stat)_{-0.00}^{+0.19}(syst) eV. This exclusion analysis sets the most stringent dark matter-nucleon scattering cross-section limits achieved by a cryogenic detector for dark matter particle masses from 93 to 140 MeV/c^{2}, with a raw exposure of 9.9 g d acquired at an above-ground facility. This work illustrates the scientific potential of detectors with athermal phonon sensors with eV-scale energy resolution for future dark matter searches.
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- I Alkhatib
- Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A7, Canada
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- Department of Physics, Durham University, Durham DH1 3LE, United Kingdom
| | - T Aralis
- Division of Physics, Mathematics, & Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
| | - S Banik
- School of Physical Sciences, National Institute of Science Education and Research, HBNI, Jatni-752050, India
| | - D Barker
- School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada
- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota 57069, USA
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- Department of Physics, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, South Dakota 57701, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
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- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Physics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Department of Physics, Durham University, Durham DH1 3LE, United Kingdom
- Instituto de Física Teórica UAM/CSIC, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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- Division of Physics, Mathematics, & Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
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- School of Physical Sciences, National Institute of Science Education and Research, HBNI, Jatni-752050, India
| | - R Chen
- Department of Physics & Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3112, USA
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- Department of Physics, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, South Dakota 57701, USA
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- Department of Physics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
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- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
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- School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Département de Physique, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Quebec H3C 3J7, Canada
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A7, Canada
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- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3112, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
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- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
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- Division of Physics, Mathematics, & Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado 80217, USA
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3112, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado 80217, USA
- Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado 80217, USA
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- School of Physical Sciences, National Institute of Science Education and Research, HBNI, Jatni-752050, India
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- Department of Physics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- School of Physical Sciences, National Institute of Science Education and Research, HBNI, Jatni-752050, India
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada
- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
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- Department of Physics, Durham University, Durham DH1 3LE, United Kingdom
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada
- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
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- Département de Physique, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Quebec H3C 3J7, Canada
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada
- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- School of Physical Sciences, National Institute of Science Education and Research, HBNI, Jatni-752050, India
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
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- School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada
- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota 57069, USA
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- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota 57069, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
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- Department of Physics, Durham University, Durham DH1 3LE, United Kingdom
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3112, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado 80217, USA
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- Département de Physique, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Quebec H3C 3J7, Canada
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- Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota 57069, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A7, Canada
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- Department of Physics, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, South Dakota 57701, USA
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- SNOLAB, Creighton Mine #9, 1039 Regional Road 24, Sudbury, Ontario P3Y 1N2, Canada
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Physics, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, South Dakota 57701, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado 80217, USA
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- Institut für Experimentalphysik, Universität Hamburg, 22761 Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Département de Physique, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Quebec H3C 3J7, Canada
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A7, Canada
- Institut für Experimentalphysik, Universität Hamburg, 22761 Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Physics, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California 95053, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A7, Canada
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- School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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Abba A, Accorsi C, Agnes P, Alessi E, Amaudruz P, Annovi A, Desages FA, Back S, Badia C, Bagger J, Basile V, Batignani G, Bayo A, Bell B, Beschi M, Biagini D, Bianchi G, Bicelli S, Bishop D, Boccali T, Bombarda A, Bonfanti S, Bonivento WM, Bouchard M, Breviario M, Brice S, Brown R, Calvo-Mozota JM, Camozzi L, Camozzi M, Capra A, Caravati M, Carlini M, Ceccanti A, Celano B, Cela Ruiz JM, Charette C, Cogliati G, Constable M, Crippa C, Croci G, Cudmore S, Dahl CE, Dal Molin A, Daley M, Di Guardo C, D'Avenio G, Davignon O, Del Tutto M, De Ruiter J, Devoto A, Diaz Gomez Maqueo P, Di Francesco F, Dossi M, Druszkiewicz E, Duma C, Elliott E, Farina D, Fernandes C, Ferroni F, Finocchiaro G, Fiorillo G, Ford R, Foti G, Fournier RD, Franco D, Fricbergs C, Gabriele F, Galbiati C, Garcia Abia P, Gargantini A, Giacomelli L, Giacomini F, Giacomini F, Giarratana LS, Gillespie S, Giorgi D, Girma T, Gobui R, Goeldi D, Golf F, Gorel P, Gorini G, Gramellini E, Grosso G, Guescini F, Guetre E, Hackman G, Hadden T, Hawkins W, Hayashi K, Heavey A, Hersak G, Hessey N, Hockin G, Hudson K, Ianni A, Ienzi C, Ippolito V, James CC, Jillings C, Kendziora C, Khan S, Kim E, King M, King S, Kittmer A, Kochanek I, Kowalkowski J, Krücken R, Kushoro M, Kuula S, Laclaustra M, Leblond G, Lee L, Lennarz A, Leyton M, Li X, Liimatainen P, Lim C, Lindner T, Lomonaco T, Lu P, Lubna R, Lukhanin GA, Luzón G, MacDonald M, Magni G, Maharaj R, Manni S, Mapelli C, Margetak P, Martin L, Martin S, Martínez M, Massacret N, McClurg P, McDonald AB, Meazzi E, Migalla R, Mohayai T, Tosatti LM, Monzani G, Moretti C, Morrison B, Mountaniol M, Muraro A, Napoli P, Nati F, Natzke CR, Noble AJ, Norrick A, Olchanski K, Ortiz de Solorzano A, Padula F, Pallavicini M, Palumbo I, Panontin E, Papini N, Parmeggiano L, Parmeggiano S, Patel K, Patel A, Paterno M, Pellegrino C, Pelliccione P, Pesudo V, Pocar A, Pope A, Pordes S, Prelz F, Putignano O, Raaf JL, Ratti C, Razeti M, Razeto A, Reed D, Refsgaard J, Reilly T, Renshaw A, Retriere F, Riccobene E, Rigamonti D, Rizzi A, Rode J, Romualdez J, Russel L, Sablone D, Sala S, Salomoni D, Salvo P, Sandoval A, Sansoucy E, Santorelli R, Savarese C, Scapparone E, Schaubel T, Scorza S, Settimo M, Shaw B, Shawyer S, Sher A, Shi A, Skensved P, Slutsky A, Smith B, Smith NJT, Stenzler A, Straubel C, Stringari P, Suchenek M, Sur B, Tacchino S, Takeuchi L, Tardocchi M, Tartaglia R, Thomas E, Trask D, Tseng J, Tseng L, VanPagee L, Vedia V, Velghe B, Viel S, Visioli A, Viviani L, Vonica D, Wada M, Walter D, Wang H, Wang MHLS, Westerdale S, Wood D, Yates D, Yue S, Zambrano V. The novel Mechanical Ventilator Milano for the COVID-19 pandemic. Phys Fluids (1994) 2021; 33:037122. [PMID: 33897243 PMCID: PMC8060010 DOI: 10.1063/5.0044445] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2021] [Accepted: 02/14/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
Abstract
This paper presents the Mechanical Ventilator Milano (MVM), a novel intensive therapy mechanical ventilator designed for rapid, large-scale, low-cost production for the COVID-19 pandemic. Free of moving mechanical parts and requiring only a source of compressed oxygen and medical air to operate, the MVM is designed to support the long-term invasive ventilation often required for COVID-19 patients and operates in pressure-regulated ventilation modes, which minimize the risk of furthering lung trauma. The MVM was extensively tested against ISO standards in the laboratory using a breathing simulator, with good agreement between input and measured breathing parameters and performing correctly in response to fault conditions and stability tests. The MVM has obtained Emergency Use Authorization by U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use in healthcare settings during the COVID-19 pandemic and Health Canada Medical Device Authorization for Importation or Sale, under Interim Order for Use in Relation to COVID-19. Following these certifications, mass production is ongoing and distribution is under way in several countries. The MVM was designed, tested, prepared for certification, and mass produced in the space of a few months by a unique collaboration of respiratory healthcare professionals and experimental physicists, working with industrial partners, and is an excellent ventilator candidate for this pandemic anywhere in the world.
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- A. Abba
- Nuclear Instruments S.R.L., Como 22045, Italy
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- Elemaster Group S.p.A., Lomagna (LC) 23871, Italy
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- Department of Physics, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77204, USA
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- Istituto per la Scienza e Tecnologia dei Plasmi, ISTP-CNR, Milano 20125, Italy
| | - P. Amaudruz
- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
| | - A. Annovi
- INFN Sezione di Pisa, Pisa 56127, Italy
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- APC, Université de Paris, CNRS, Astroparticule et Cosmologie, F-75013 Paris, France
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- SNOLAB, Lively, Ontario P3Y 1N2, Canada
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- Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila 67100, Italy
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- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
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- Istituto di Sistemi e Tecnologie Industriali Intelligenti per il Manifatturiero Avanzato, CNR STIIMA, Milano 20133, Italy
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- LSC, Laboratorio Subterráneo de Canfranc, Canfranc-Estación 22880, Spain
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- JMP Solutions, London, Ontario N6N 1E2, Canada
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- Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale, Università di Pisa, Pisa 56124, Italy
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- Istituto di Sistemi e Tecnologie Industriali Intelligenti per il Manifatturiero Avanzato, CNR STIIMA, Milano 20133, Italy
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- Camozzi Group S.p.A., Brescia BS 25126, Italy
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- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
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- Dipartimento di Ingegneria Gestionale, dell'Informazione e della Produzione, Università di Bergamo, Bergamo, 24129, Italy
| | - S. Bonfanti
- Dipartimento di Ingegneria Gestionale, dell'Informazione e della Produzione, Università di Bergamo, Bergamo, 24129, Italy
| | | | - M. Bouchard
- Canadian Nuclear Laboratories, Chalk River K0J 1J0, Canada
| | - M. Breviario
- Elemaster Group S.p.A., Lomagna (LC) 23871, Italy
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- Canadian Nuclear Laboratories, Chalk River K0J 1J0, Canada
| | - J. M. Calvo-Mozota
- LSC, Laboratorio Subterráneo de Canfranc, Canfranc-Estación 22880, Spain
| | - L. Camozzi
- Camozzi Group S.p.A., Brescia BS 25126, Italy
| | - M. Camozzi
- Camozzi Group S.p.A., Brescia BS 25126, Italy
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- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
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- INFN Sezione di Cagliari, Cagliari 09042, Italy
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- Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila 67100, Italy
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- INFN Sezione di Napoli, Napoli 80126, Italy
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- CIEMAT, Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas, Madrid 28040, Spain
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- Canadian Nuclear Laboratories, Chalk River K0J 1J0, Canada
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- Elemaster Group S.p.A., Lomagna (LC) 23871, Italy
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- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
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- Elemaster Group S.p.A., Lomagna (LC) 23871, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano 20126, Italy
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- Canadian Nuclear Laboratories, Chalk River K0J 1J0, Canada
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano 20126, Italy
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- Canadian Nuclear Laboratories, Chalk River K0J 1J0, Canada
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche ed Aziendali, Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Cagliari 09042, Italy
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- National Center for Innovative Technologies in Public Health, ISS (Italy National Institute of Health), Roma 00161, Italy
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- Laboratoire Leprince Ringuet, École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, Cedex 91128, France
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- Canadian Nuclear Laboratories, Chalk River K0J 1J0, Canada
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Cagliari 09042, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale, Università di Pisa, Pisa 56124, Italy
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- Elemaster Group S.p.A., Lomagna (LC) 23871, Italy
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA
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- INFN-CNAF, Bologna 40127, Italy
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- Canadian Nuclear Laboratories, Chalk River K0J 1J0, Canada
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- Istituto per la Scienza e Tecnologia dei Plasmi, ISTP-CNR, Milano 20125, Italy
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- SNOLAB, Lively, Ontario P3Y 1N2, Canada
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- APC, Université de Paris, CNRS, Astroparticule et Cosmologie, F-75013 Paris, France
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (AQ) 67100, Italy
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- CIEMAT, Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas, Madrid 28040, Spain
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- Dipartimento di Ingegneria Gestionale, dell'Informazione e della Produzione, Università di Bergamo, Bergamo, 24129, Italy
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- Istituto per la Scienza e Tecnologia dei Plasmi, ISTP-CNR, Milano 20125, Italy
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- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
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- Camozzi Group S.p.A., Brescia BS 25126, Italy
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- VEXOS, Markham, Ontario L3R 9X6, Canada
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- VEXOS, Markham, Ontario L3R 9X6, Canada
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska 68508, USA
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- SNOLAB, Lively, Ontario P3Y 1N2, Canada
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano 20126, Italy
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- Istituto per la Scienza e Tecnologia dei Plasmi, ISTP-CNR, Milano 20125, Italy
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Physik (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut), 80805 München, Germany
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- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
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- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
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- Canadian Nuclear Laboratories, Chalk River K0J 1J0, Canada
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- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- Canadian Nuclear Laboratories, Chalk River K0J 1J0, Canada
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- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
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- JMP Solutions, London, Ontario N6N 1E2, Canada
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- VEXOS, Markham, Ontario L3R 9X6, Canada
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- Physics Department, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA
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- Canadian Nuclear Laboratories, Chalk River K0J 1J0, Canada
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- VEXOS, Markham, Ontario L3R 9X6, Canada
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- Canadian Nuclear Laboratories, Chalk River K0J 1J0, Canada
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- Canadian Nuclear Laboratories, Chalk River K0J 1J0, Canada
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- JMP Solutions, London, Ontario N6N 1E2, Canada
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- Canadian Nuclear Laboratories, Chalk River K0J 1J0, Canada
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (AQ) 67100, Italy
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano 20126, Italy
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- SNOLAB, Lively, Ontario P3Y 1N2, Canada
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- Canadian Nuclear Laboratories, Chalk River K0J 1J0, Canada
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- Department of APT, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver V5Z 1M9, Canada
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- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
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- INFN Sezione di Napoli, Napoli 80126, Italy
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- Physics Department, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA
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- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
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- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
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- Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale, Università di Pisa, Pisa 56124, Italy
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- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
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- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- CAPA (Centro de Astropartículas y Física de Altas Energías), Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza 50009, Spain
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- Canadian Nuclear Laboratories, Chalk River K0J 1J0, Canada
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- Elemaster Group S.p.A., Lomagna (LC) 23871, Italy
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- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
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- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
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- Dipartimento di Meccanica, Politecnico di Milano, Milano 20156, Italy
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- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
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- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
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- VEXOS, Markham, Ontario L3R 9X6, Canada
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- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
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- Department of Respiratory and Anaesthesia Technology, Vanier College, Montréal, Quebec H4L 3X9, Canada
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- Elemaster Group S.p.A., Lomagna (LC) 23871, Italy
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- Istituto di Sistemi e Tecnologie Industriali Intelligenti per il Manifatturiero Avanzato, CNR STIIMA, Milano 20133, Italy
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- Elemaster Group S.p.A., Lomagna (LC) 23871, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Pediatria, Sapienza Università di Roma, Roma 00185, Italy
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- Istituto per la Scienza e Tecnologia dei Plasmi, ISTP-CNR, Milano 20125, Italy
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- Elemaster Group S.p.A., Lomagna (LC) 23871, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano 20126, Italy
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- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
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- CAPA (Centro de Astropartículas y Física de Altas Energías), Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza 50009, Spain
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- School of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, Curtin University, Perth (Washington), Australia
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- Azienda Ospedaliera San Gerardo, Monza 20900, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano 20126, Italy
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- Elemaster Group S.p.A., Lomagna (LC) 23871, Italy
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- VEXOS, Markham, Ontario L3R 9X6, Canada
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- VEXOS, Markham, Ontario L3R 9X6, Canada
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- Amherst Center for Fundamental Interactions and Physics Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA
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- JMP Solutions, London, Ontario N6N 1E2, Canada
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- INFN Sezione di Milano, Milano 20133, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano 20126, Italy
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- Elemaster Group S.p.A., Lomagna (LC) 23871, Italy
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- INFN Sezione di Cagliari, Cagliari 09042, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (AQ) 67100, Italy
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- Equilibar L.L.C., Fletcher, North Carolina 28732, USA
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- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
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- VEXOS, Markham, Ontario L3R 9X6, Canada
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- Department of Physics, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77204, USA
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- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
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- Dipartimento di Informatica, Universitá degli Studi di Milano, Milano 20122, Italy
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- Istituto per la Scienza e Tecnologia dei Plasmi, ISTP-CNR, Milano 20125, Italy
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- Physics Department, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA
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- JMP Solutions, London, Ontario N6N 1E2, Canada
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (AQ) 67100, Italy
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- Elemaster Group S.p.A., Lomagna (LC) 23871, Italy
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- Istituto di Fisiologia Clinica del CNR, IFC-CNR, Pisa 56124, Italy
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- Canadian Nuclear Laboratories, Chalk River K0J 1J0, Canada
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- CIEMAT, Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas, Madrid 28040, Spain
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- Physics Department, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA
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- Canadian Nuclear Laboratories, Chalk River K0J 1J0, Canada
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- SNOLAB, Lively, Ontario P3Y 1N2, Canada
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- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes 44300, France
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- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
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- JMP Solutions, London, Ontario N6N 1E2, Canada
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- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
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- Canadian Nuclear Laboratories, Chalk River K0J 1J0, Canada
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- St. Michael's Hospital, Unity Health Toronto, Ontario M5B 1W8, Canada
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- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
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- 12th Man Technologies, Garden Grove, California 92841, USA
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- Canadian Nuclear Laboratories, Chalk River K0J 1J0, Canada
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- MINES ParisTech, PSL University, CTP-Centre of Thermodynamics of Processes, 77300 Fontainebleau, France
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- AstroCeNT, Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw 00-614, Poland
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- Canadian Nuclear Laboratories, Chalk River K0J 1J0, Canada
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- Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z4, Canada
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- Istituto per la Scienza e Tecnologia dei Plasmi, ISTP-CNR, Milano 20125, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (AQ) 67100, Italy
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- Arthur B. McDonald Canadian Astroparticle Research Institute, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
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- Canadian Nuclear Laboratories, Chalk River K0J 1J0, Canada
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- Department of Physics, University of Oxford, The Denys Wilkinson Building, Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3RH, United Kingdom
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- VEXOS, Markham, Ontario L3R 9X6, Canada
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- JMP Solutions, London, Ontario N6N 1E2, Canada
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- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
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- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
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- Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica e Industriale, Università degli Studi di Brescia, Brescia 25123, Italy
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- Elemaster Group S.p.A., Lomagna (LC) 23871, Italy
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- VEXOS, Markham, Ontario L3R 9X6, Canada
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- AstroCeNT, Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw 00-614, Poland
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- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
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- Physics and Astronomy Department, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- Canadian Nuclear Laboratories, Chalk River K0J 1J0, Canada
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- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
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- Canadian Nuclear Laboratories, Chalk River K0J 1J0, Canada
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- CAPA (Centro de Astropartículas y Física de Altas Energías), Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza 50009, Spain
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Agnese R, Aralis T, Aramaki T, Arnquist I, Azadbakht E, Baker W, Banik S, Barker D, Bauer D, Binder T, Bowles M, Brink P, Bunker R, Cabrera B, Calkins R, Cameron R, Cartaro C, Cerdeño D, Chang YY, Cooley J, Cornell B, Cushman P, De Brienne F, Doughty T, Fascione E, Figueroa-Feliciano E, Fink C, Fritts M, Gerbier G, Germond R, Ghaith M, Golwala S, Harris H, Herbert N, Hong Z, Hoppe E, Hsu L, Huber M, Iyer V, Jardin D, Jastram A, Jena C, Kelsey M, Kennedy A, Kubik A, Kurinsky N, Lawrence R, Loer B, Lopez Asamar E, Lukens P, MacDonell D, Mahapatra R, Mandic V, Mast N, Miller E, Mirabolfathi N, Mohanty B, Morales Mendoza J, Nelson J, Neog H, Orrell J, Oser S, Page W, Partridge R, Pepin M, Ponce F, Poudel S, Pyle M, Qiu H, Rau W, Reisetter A, Ren R, Reynolds T, Roberts A, Robinson A, Rogers H, Saab T, Sadoulet B, Sander J, Scarff A, Schnee R, Scorza S, Senapati K, Serfass B, Speller D, Stanford C, Stein M, Street J, Tanaka H, Toback D, Underwood R, Villano A, von Krosigk B, Watkins S, Wilson J, Wilson M, Winchell J, Wright D, Yellin S, Young B, Zhang X, Zhao X. Search for low-mass dark matter with CDMSlite using a profile likelihood fit. Int J Clin Exp Med 2019. [DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.99.062001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Agnese R, Aralis T, Aramaki T, Arnquist IJ, Azadbakht E, Baker W, Banik S, Barker D, Bauer DA, Binder T, Bowles MA, Brink PL, Bunker R, Cabrera B, Calkins R, Cartaro C, Cerdeño DG, Chang YY, Cooley J, Cornell B, Cushman P, Di Stefano PCF, Doughty T, Fascione E, Figueroa-Feliciano E, Fink C, Fritts M, Gerbier G, Germond R, Ghaith M, Golwala SR, Harris HR, Hong Z, Hoppe EW, Hsu L, Huber ME, Iyer V, Jardin D, Jena C, Kelsey MH, Kennedy A, Kubik A, Kurinsky NA, Lawrence RE, Leyva JV, Loer B, Lopez Asamar E, Lukens P, MacDonell D, Mahapatra R, Mandic V, Mast N, Miller EH, Mirabolfathi N, Mohanty B, Morales Mendoza JD, Nelson J, Orrell JL, Oser SM, Page WA, Partridge R, Pepin M, Phipps A, Ponce F, Poudel S, Pyle M, Qiu H, Rau W, Reisetter A, Reynolds T, Roberts A, Robinson AE, Rogers HE, Romani RK, Saab T, Sadoulet B, Sander J, Scarff A, Schnee RW, Scorza S, Senapati K, Serfass B, So J, Speller D, Stanford C, Stein M, Street J, Tanaka HA, Toback D, Underwood R, Villano AN, von Krosigk B, Watkins SL, Wilson JS, Wilson MJ, Winchell J, Wright DH, Yellin S, Young BA, Zhang X, Zhao X. Erratum: First Dark Matter Constraints from a SuperCDMS Single-Charge Sensitive Detector [Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 051301 (2018)]. Phys Rev Lett 2019; 122:069901. [PMID: 30822060 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.122.069901] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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This corrects the article DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.051301.
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Agnese R, Aralis T, Aramaki T, Arnquist IJ, Azadbakht E, Baker W, Banik S, Barker D, Bauer DA, Binder T, Bowles MA, Brink PL, Bunker R, Cabrera B, Calkins R, Cartaro C, Cerdeño DG, Chang YY, Cooley J, Cornell B, Cushman P, Di Stefano PCF, Doughty T, Fascione E, Figueroa-Feliciano E, Fink C, Fritts M, Gerbier G, Germond R, Ghaith M, Golwala SR, Harris HR, Hong Z, Hoppe EW, Hsu L, Huber ME, Iyer V, Jardin D, Jena C, Kelsey MH, Kennedy A, Kubik A, Kurinsky NA, Lawrence RE, Leyva JV, Loer B, Lopez Asamar E, Lukens P, MacDonell D, Mahapatra R, Mandic V, Mast N, Miller EH, Mirabolfathi N, Mohanty B, Morales Mendoza JD, Nelson J, Orrell JL, Oser SM, Page WA, Partridge R, Pepin M, Phipps A, Ponce F, Poudel S, Pyle M, Qiu H, Rau W, Reisetter A, Reynolds T, Roberts A, Robinson AE, Rogers HE, Romani RK, Saab T, Sadoulet B, Sander J, Scarff A, Schnee RW, Scorza S, Senapati K, Serfass B, So J, Speller D, Stanford C, Stein M, Street J, Tanaka HA, Toback D, Underwood R, Villano AN, von Krosigk B, Watkins SL, Wilson JS, Wilson MJ, Winchell J, Wright DH, Yellin S, Young BA, Zhang X, Zhao X. First Dark Matter Constraints from a SuperCDMS Single-Charge Sensitive Detector. Phys Rev Lett 2018; 121:051301. [PMID: 30118251 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.121.051301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/01/2018] [Revised: 06/20/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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We present the first limits on inelastic electron-scattering dark matter and dark photon absorption using a prototype SuperCDMS detector having a charge resolution of 0.1 electron-hole pairs (CDMS HVeV, a 0.93 g CDMS high-voltage device). These electron-recoil limits significantly improve experimental constraints on dark matter particles with masses as low as 1 MeV/c^{2}. We demonstrate a sensitivity to dark photons competitive with other leading approaches but using substantially less exposure (0.49 g d). These results demonstrate the scientific potential of phonon-mediated semiconductor detectors that are sensitive to single electronic excitations.
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- R Agnese
- Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
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- Division of Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
| | - T Aramaki
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
| | - I J Arnquist
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
| | - E Azadbakht
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
| | - W Baker
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
| | - S Banik
- School of Physical Sciences, National Institute of Science Education and Research, HBNI, Jatni-752050, India
| | - D Barker
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
| | - D A Bauer
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
| | - T Binder
- Department of Physics, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota 57069, USA
| | - M A Bowles
- Department of Physics, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, South Dakota 57701, USA
| | - P L Brink
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
| | - R Bunker
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
| | - B Cabrera
- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
| | - R Calkins
- Department of Physics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, USA
| | - C Cartaro
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
| | - D G Cerdeño
- Department of Physics, Durham University, Durham DH1 3LE, United Kingdom
- Instituto de Física Teórica UAM/CSIC, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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- Division of Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
| | - J Cooley
- Department of Physics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, USA
| | - B Cornell
- Division of Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
| | - P Cushman
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
| | - P C F Di Stefano
- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
| | - T Doughty
- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
| | - E Fascione
- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
| | - E Figueroa-Feliciano
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3112, USA
| | - C Fink
- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
| | - M Fritts
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
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- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
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- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
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- Division of Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
| | - H R Harris
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3112, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado 80217, USA
- Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado 80217, USA
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- School of Physical Sciences, National Institute of Science Education and Research, HBNI, Jatni-752050, India
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- Department of Physics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, USA
| | - C Jena
- School of Physical Sciences, National Institute of Science Education and Research, HBNI, Jatni-752050, India
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
| | - A Kennedy
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
| | - A Kubik
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
| | - R E Lawrence
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- Department of Physics, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California 95053, USA
- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
| | - E Lopez Asamar
- Department of Physics, Durham University, Durham DH1 3LE, United Kingdom
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada
| | - R Mahapatra
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
| | - V Mandic
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
| | - E H Miller
- Department of Physics, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, South Dakota 57701, USA
| | - N Mirabolfathi
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
| | - B Mohanty
- School of Physical Sciences, National Institute of Science Education and Research, HBNI, Jatni-752050, India
| | - J D Morales Mendoza
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
| | - J Nelson
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
| | - J L Orrell
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
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- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada
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- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
| | - M Pepin
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota 57069, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, USA
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- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
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- Department of Physics, University of Evansville, Evansville, Indiana 47722, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado 80217, USA
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- Département de Physique, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC H3T 1J4, Canada
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
| | - J Sander
- Department of Physics, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota 57069, USA
| | - A Scarff
- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada
| | - R W Schnee
- Department of Physics, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, South Dakota 57701, USA
| | - S Scorza
- SNOLAB, Creighton Mine #9, 1039 Regional Road 24, Sudbury, Ontario P3Y 1N2, Canada
| | - K Senapati
- School of Physical Sciences, National Institute of Science Education and Research, HBNI, Jatni-752050, India
| | - B Serfass
- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, South Dakota 57701, USA
| | - D Speller
- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
| | - C Stanford
- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
| | - M Stein
- Department of Physics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, USA
| | - J Street
- Department of Physics, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, South Dakota 57701, USA
| | - H A Tanaka
- Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A7, Canada
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
| | - R Underwood
- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
| | - A N Villano
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
| | - B von Krosigk
- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada
| | - S L Watkins
- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
| | - J S Wilson
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
| | - M J Wilson
- Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A7, Canada
| | - J Winchell
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
| | - D H Wright
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
| | - S Yellin
- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
| | - B A Young
- Department of Physics, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California 95053, USA
- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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Agnese R, Aramaki T, Arnquist IJ, Baker W, Balakishiyeva D, Banik S, Barker D, Basu Thakur R, Bauer DA, Binder T, Bowles MA, Brink PL, Bunker R, Cabrera B, Caldwell DO, Calkins R, Cartaro C, Cerdeño DG, Chang Y, Chen Y, Cooley J, Cornell B, Cushman P, Daal M, Di Stefano PCF, Doughty T, Fascione E, Figueroa-Feliciano E, Fritts M, Gerbier G, Germond R, Ghaith M, Godfrey GL, Golwala SR, Hall J, Harris HR, Hong Z, Hoppe EW, Hsu L, Huber ME, Iyer V, Jardin D, Jastram A, Jena C, Kelsey MH, Kennedy A, Kubik A, Kurinsky NA, Loer B, Lopez Asamar E, Lukens P, MacDonell D, Mahapatra R, Mandic V, Mast N, Miller EH, Mirabolfathi N, Mohanty B, Morales Mendoza JD, Nelson J, Orrell JL, Oser SM, Page K, Page WA, Partridge R, Penalver Martinez M, Pepin M, Phipps A, Poudel S, Pyle M, Qiu H, Rau W, Redl P, Reisetter A, Reynolds T, Roberts A, Robinson AE, Rogers HE, Saab T, Sadoulet B, Sander J, Schneck K, Schnee RW, Scorza S, Senapati K, Serfass B, Speller D, Stein M, Street J, Tanaka HA, Toback D, Underwood R, Villano AN, von Krosigk B, Welliver B, Wilson JS, Wilson MJ, Wright DH, Yellin S, Yen JJ, Young BA, Zhang X, Zhao X. Results from the Super Cryogenic Dark Matter Search Experiment at Soudan. Phys Rev Lett 2018; 120:061802. [PMID: 29481237 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.120.061802] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2017] [Revised: 01/02/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
Abstract
We report the result of a blinded search for weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) using the majority of the SuperCDMS Soudan data set. With an exposure of 1690 kg d, a single candidate event is observed, consistent with expected backgrounds. This analysis (combined with previous Ge results) sets an upper limit on the spin-independent WIMP-nucleon cross section of 1.4×10^{-44} (1.0×10^{-44}) cm^{2} at 46 GeV/c^{2}. These results set the strongest limits for WIMP-germanium-nucleus interactions for masses >12 GeV/c^{2}.
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- R Agnese
- Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville Florida 32611, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- Department of Physics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, USA
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- School of Physical Sciences, National Institute of Science Education and Research, HBNI, Jatni 752050, India
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- School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
- Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota 57069, USA
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- Department of Physics, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, South Dakota 57701, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
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- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA
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- Department of Physics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Department of Physics, Durham University, Durham DH1 3LE, United Kingdom
- Instituto de Física Teórica UAM/CSIC, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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- Division of Physics, Mathematics, & Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
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- Department of Physics, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244, USA
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- Department of Physics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, USA
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- Division of Physics, Mathematics, & Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
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- School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3112, USA
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- School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
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- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
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- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Division of Physics, Mathematics, & Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3112, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- Departments of Physics and Electrical Engineering, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado 80217, USA
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- School of Physical Sciences, National Institute of Science Education and Research, HBNI, Jatni 752050, India
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- Department of Physics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- School of Physical Sciences, National Institute of Science Education and Research, HBNI, Jatni 752050, India
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
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- Department of Physics, Durham University, Durham DH1 3LE, United Kingdom
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada
- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, South Dakota 57701, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- School of Physical Sciences, National Institute of Science Education and Research, HBNI, Jatni 752050, India
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada
- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
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- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada
- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota 57069, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, USA
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- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
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- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Evansville, Evansville, Indiana 47722, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville Florida 32611, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota 57069, USA
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville Florida 32611, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota 57069, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Department of Physics, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, South Dakota 57701, USA
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- SNOLAB, Creighton Mine #9, 1039 Regional Road 24, Sudbury, Ontario P3Y 1N2, Canada
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- School of Physical Sciences, National Institute of Science Education and Research, HBNI, Jatni 752050, India
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, USA
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- Department of Physics, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, South Dakota 57701, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A7, Canada
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
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- School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada
- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
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- Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville Florida 32611, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A7, Canada
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Physics, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California 95053, USA
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- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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Armengaud E, Augier C, Barabash AS, Beeman JW, Bekker TB, Bellini F, Benoît A, Bergé L, Bergmann T, Billard J, Boiko RS, Broniatowski A, Brudanin V, Camus P, Capelli S, Cardani L, Casali N, Cazes A, Chapellier M, Charlieux F, Chernyak DM, de Combarieu M, Coron N, Danevich FA, Dafinei I, Jesus MD, Devoyon L, Domizio SD, Dumoulin L, Eitel K, Enss C, Ferroni F, Fleischmann A, Foerster N, Gascon J, Gastaldo L, Gironi L, Giuliani A, Grigorieva VD, Gros M, Hehn L, Hervé S, Humbert V, Ivannikova NV, Ivanov IM, Jin Y, Juillard A, Kleifges M, Kobychev VV, Konovalov SI, Koskas F, Kozlov V, Kraus H, Kudryavtsev VA, Laubenstein M, Sueur HL, Loidl M, Magnier P, Makarov EP, Mancuso M, de Marcillac P, Marnieros S, Marrache-Kikuchi C, Nagorny S, Navick XF, Nikolaichuk MO, Nones C, Novati V, Olivieri E, Pagnanini L, Pari P, Pattavina L, Pavan M, Paul B, Penichot Y, Pessina G, Piperno G, Pirro S, Plantevin O, Poda DV, Queguiner E, Redon T, Rodrigues M, Rozov S, Rusconi C, Sanglard V, Schäffner K, Scorza S, Shlegel VN, Siebenborn B, Strazzer O, Tcherniakhovski D, Tomei C, Tretyak VI, Umatov VI, Vagneron L, Vasiliev YV, Velázquez M, Vignati M, Weber M, Yakushev E, Zolotarova AS. Development of 100 Mo -containing scintillating bolometers for a high-sensitivity neutrinoless double-beta decay search. Eur Phys J C Part Fields 2017; 77:785. [PMID: 31997932 PMCID: PMC6956908 DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5343-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/07/2017] [Accepted: 11/02/2017] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
Abstract
This paper reports on the development of a technology involving 100 Mo -enriched scintillating bolometers, compatible with the goals of CUPID, a proposed next-generation bolometric experiment to search for neutrinoless double-beta decay. Large mass ( ∼ 1 kg ), high optical quality, radiopure 100 Mo -containing zinc and lithium molybdate crystals have been produced and used to develop high performance single detector modules based on 0.2-0.4 kg scintillating bolometers. In particular, the energy resolution of the lithium molybdate detectors near the Q-value of the double-beta transition of 100 Mo (3034 keV) is 4-6 keV FWHM. The rejection of the α -induced dominant background above 2.6 MeV is better than 8 σ . Less than 10 μ Bq/kg activity of 232 Th ( 228 Th ) and 226 Ra in the crystals is ensured by boule recrystallization. The potential of 100 Mo -enriched scintillating bolometers to perform high sensitivity double-beta decay searches has been demonstrated with only 10 kg × d exposure: the two neutrino double-beta decay half-life of 100 Mo has been measured with the up-to-date highest accuracy as T 1 / 2 = [6.90 ± 0.15(stat.) ± 0.37(syst.)] × 10 18 years . Both crystallization and detector technologies favor lithium molybdate, which has been selected for the ongoing construction of the CUPID-0/Mo demonstrator, containing several kg of 100 Mo .
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- E. Armengaud
- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IPN-Lyon, 69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, 117218 Moscow, Russia
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
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- V.S. Sobolev Institute of Geology and Mineralogy of the Siberian Branch of the RAS, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- CNRS-Néel, 38042 Grenoble Cedex 9, France
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- CSNSM, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Prozessdatenverarbeitung und Elektronik, 76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IPN-Lyon, 69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- Institute for Nuclear Research, 03028 Kyiv, Ukraine
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- CSNSM, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Experimentelle Teilchenphysik, 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Laboratory of Nuclear Problems, JINR, 141980 Dubna, Moscow Region Russia
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- CNRS-Néel, 38042 Grenoble Cedex 9, France
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IPN-Lyon, 69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- CSNSM, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IPN-Lyon, 69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- Institute for Nuclear Research, 03028 Kyiv, Ukraine
- Present Address: Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI), The University of Tokyo Institutes for Advanced Study, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba Japan
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- IRAMIS, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- IAS, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, 91405 Orsay, France
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IPN-Lyon, 69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- Orphée, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, 16146 Genoa, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Genova, 16146 Genoa, Italy
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- CSNSM, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Kernphysik, 76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Kirchhoff Institute for Physics, Heidelberg University, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Kirchhoff Institute for Physics, Heidelberg University, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Experimentelle Teilchenphysik, 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IPN-Lyon, 69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- Kirchhoff Institute for Physics, Heidelberg University, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- CSNSM, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
- DISAT, Università dell’Insubria, 22100 Como, Italy
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- Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Kernphysik, 76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- CSNSM, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Laboratoire de Photonique et de Nanostructures, CNRS, Route de Nozay, 91460 Marcoussis, France
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- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IPN-Lyon, 69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Prozessdatenverarbeitung und Elektronik, 76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, 117218 Moscow, Russia
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- Orphée, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Experimentelle Teilchenphysik, 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3RH UK
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield, Hounsfield Road, Sheffield, S3 7RH UK
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, 67100 Assergi, AQ Italy
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- CSNSM, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
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- CEA, LIST, Laboratoire National Henri Becquerel (LNE-LNHB), CEA-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
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- CSNSM, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
- DISAT, Università dell’Insubria, 22100 Como, Italy
- Present Address: Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, Munich, Germany
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- CSNSM, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
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- CSNSM, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
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- CSNSM, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, 67100 Assergi, AQ Italy
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- CSNSM, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
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- CSNSM, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, 67100 Assergi, AQ Italy
- INFN, Gran Sasso Science Institute, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy
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- IRAMIS, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, 67100 Assergi, AQ Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, 00044 Rome, Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, 67100 Assergi, AQ Italy
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- CSNSM, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
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- CSNSM, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
- Institute for Nuclear Research, 03028 Kyiv, Ukraine
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- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IPN-Lyon, 69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- IAS, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, 91405 Orsay, France
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- CEA, LIST, Laboratoire National Henri Becquerel (LNE-LNHB), CEA-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
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- Laboratory of Nuclear Problems, JINR, 141980 Dubna, Moscow Region Russia
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, 67100 Assergi, AQ Italy
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208 USA
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- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IPN-Lyon, 69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, 67100 Assergi, AQ Italy
- INFN, Gran Sasso Science Institute, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Experimentelle Teilchenphysik, 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany
- Present Address: SNOLAB, Lively, ON Canada
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- Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Kernphysik, 76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Orphée, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Prozessdatenverarbeitung und Elektronik, 76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, 117218 Moscow, Russia
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- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IPN-Lyon, 69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
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- ICMCB, CNRS, Université de Bordeaux, 33608 Pessac Cedex, France
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Prozessdatenverarbeitung und Elektronik, 76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Laboratory of Nuclear Problems, JINR, 141980 Dubna, Moscow Region Russia
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Agnese R, Anderson AJ, Aramaki T, Asai M, Baker W, Balakishiyeva D, Barker D, Basu Thakur R, Bauer DA, Billard J, Borgland A, Bowles MA, Brink PL, Bunker R, Cabrera B, Caldwell DO, Calkins R, Cerdeno DG, Chagani H, Chen Y, Cooley J, Cornell B, Cushman P, Daal M, Di Stefano PCF, Doughty T, Esteban L, Fallows S, Figueroa-Feliciano E, Ghaith M, Godfrey GL, Golwala SR, Hall J, Harris HR, Hofer T, Holmgren D, Hsu L, Huber ME, Jardin D, Jastram A, Kamaev O, Kara B, Kelsey MH, Kennedy A, Leder A, Loer B, Lopez Asamar E, Lukens P, Mahapatra R, Mandic V, Mast N, Mirabolfathi N, Moffatt RA, Morales Mendoza JD, Oser SM, Page K, Page WA, Partridge R, Pepin M, Phipps A, Prasad K, Pyle M, Qiu H, Rau W, Redl P, Reisetter A, Ricci Y, Roberts A, Rogers HE, Saab T, Sadoulet B, Sander J, Schneck K, Schnee RW, Scorza S, Serfass B, Shank B, Speller D, Toback D, Underwood R, Upadhyayula S, Villano AN, Welliver B, Wilson JS, Wright DH, Yellin S, Yen JJ, Young BA, Zhang J. New Results from the Search for Low-Mass Weakly Interacting Massive Particles with the CDMS Low Ionization Threshold Experiment. Phys Rev Lett 2016; 116:071301. [PMID: 26943526 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.116.071301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2015] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
Abstract
The CDMS low ionization threshold experiment (CDMSlite) uses cryogenic germanium detectors operated at a relatively high bias voltage to amplify the phonon signal in the search for weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs). Results are presented from the second CDMSlite run with an exposure of 70 kg day, which reached an energy threshold for electron recoils as low as 56 eV. A fiducialization cut reduces backgrounds below those previously reported by CDMSlite. New parameter space for the WIMP-nucleon spin-independent cross section is excluded for WIMP masses between 1.6 and 5.5 GeV/c^{2}.
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- R Agnese
- Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
- Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Department of Physics, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Department of Physics, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, South Dakota 57701, USA
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- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA
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- Department of Physics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, USA
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- Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology, Department of Physics, Durham University, Durham DH1 3LE, United Kingdom
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244, USA
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- Department of Physics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, USA
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- Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Departamento de Física Teórica and Instituto de Física Teórica UAM/CSIC, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3112, USA
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- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado 80217, USA
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- Department of Physics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
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- Department of Physics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- Departamento de Física Teórica and Instituto de Física Teórica UAM/CSIC, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada
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- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, USA
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- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
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- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Evansville, Evansville, Indiana 47722, USA
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- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
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- Department of Physics, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota 57069, USA
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota 57069, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Department of Physics, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, South Dakota 57701, USA
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- Department of Physics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Physics, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California 95053, USA
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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Agnese R, Anderson AJ, Balakishiyeva D, Basu Thakur R, Bauer DA, Billard J, Borgland A, Bowles MA, Brandt D, Brink PL, Bunker R, Cabrera B, Caldwell DO, Cerdeno DG, Chagani H, Chen Y, Cooley J, Cornell B, Crewdson CH, Cushman P, Daal M, Di Stefano PCF, Doughty T, Esteban L, Fallows S, Figueroa-Feliciano E, Godfrey GL, Golwala SR, Hall J, Harris HR, Hertel SA, Hofer T, Holmgren D, Hsu L, Huber ME, Jastram A, Kamaev O, Kara B, Kelsey MH, Kennedy A, Kiveni M, Koch K, Leder A, Loer B, Lopez Asamar E, Mahapatra R, Mandic V, Martinez C, McCarthy KA, Mirabolfathi N, Moffatt RA, Moore DC, Nelson H, Nelson RH, Ogburn RW, Page K, Page WA, Partridge R, Pepin M, Phipps A, Prasad K, Pyle M, Qiu H, Rau W, Redl P, Reisetter A, Ricci Y, Rogers HE, Saab T, Sadoulet B, Sander J, Schneck K, Schnee RW, Scorza S, Serfass B, Shank B, Speller D, Upadhyayula S, Villano AN, Welliver B, Wright DH, Yellin S, Yen JJ, Young BA, Zhang J. First direct limits on lightly ionizing particles with electric charge less than e/6. Phys Rev Lett 2015; 114:111302. [PMID: 25839256 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.114.111302] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2014] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
Abstract
While the standard model of particle physics does not include free particles with fractional charge, experimental searches have not ruled out their existence. We report results from the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS II) experiment that give the first direct-detection limits for cosmogenically produced relativistic particles with electric charge lower than e/6. A search for tracks in the six stacked detectors of each of two of the CDMS II towers finds no candidates, thereby excluding new parameter space for particles with electric charges between e/6 and e/200.
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- R Agnese
- Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
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- Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
- Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Department of Physics, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Department of Physics, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244, USA
- Department of Physics, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, South Dakota 57701, USA
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- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA
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- Departamento de Física Teórica and Instituto de Física Teórica UAM/CSIC, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain
- IPPP, Department of Physics, Durham University, Durham DH1 3LE, United Kingdom
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- School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244, USA
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- Department of Physics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, USA
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- Division of Physics, Mathematics, & Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
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- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada K7L 3N6
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- School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada K7L 3N6
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Departamento de Física Teórica and Instituto de Física Teórica UAM/CSIC, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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- School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Division of Physics, Mathematics, & Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado 80217, USA
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada K7L 3N6
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- Department of Physics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244, USA
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- School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- Departamento de Física Teórica and Instituto de Física Teórica UAM/CSIC, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada K7L 3N6
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- Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Division of Physics, Mathematics, & Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA
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- Division of Physics, Mathematics, & Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada K7L 3N6
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, Canada
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, USA
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- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada K7L 3N6
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- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Evansville, Evansville, Indiana 47722, USA
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- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada K7L 3N6
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- School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
- Department of Physics, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota 57069, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Department of Physics, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244, USA
- Department of Physics, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, South Dakota 57701, USA
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- Department of Physics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, USA
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Experimentelle Kernphysik, 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Physics, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California 95053, USA
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- School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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Agnese R, Anderson AJ, Asai M, Balakishiyeva D, Basu Thakur R, Bauer DA, Beaty J, Billard J, Borgland A, Bowles MA, Brandt D, Brink PL, Bunker R, Cabrera B, Caldwell DO, Cerdeno DG, Chagani H, Chen Y, Cherry M, Cooley J, Cornell B, Crewdson CH, Cushman P, Daal M, DeVaney D, Di Stefano PCF, Silva EDCE, Doughty T, Esteban L, Fallows S, Figueroa-Feliciano E, Godfrey GL, Golwala SR, Hall J, Hansen S, Harris HR, Hertel SA, Hines BA, Hofer T, Holmgren D, Hsu L, Huber ME, Jastram A, Kamaev O, Kara B, Kelsey MH, Kenany S, Kennedy A, Kiveni M, Koch K, Leder A, Loer B, Lopez Asamar E, Mahapatra R, Mandic V, Martinez C, McCarthy KA, Mirabolfathi N, Moffatt RA, Nelson RH, Novak L, Page K, Partridge R, Pepin M, Phipps A, Platt M, Prasad K, Pyle M, Qiu H, Rau W, Redl P, Reisetter A, Resch RW, Ricci Y, Ruschman M, Saab T, Sadoulet B, Sander J, Schmitt RL, Schneck K, Schnee RW, Scorza S, Seitz DN, Serfass B, Shank B, Speller D, Tomada A, Upadhyayula S, Villano AN, Welliver B, Wright DH, Yellin S, Yen JJ, Young BA, Zhang J. Search for low-mass weakly interacting massive particles with SuperCDMS. Phys Rev Lett 2014; 112:241302. [PMID: 24996080 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.112.241302] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2014] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
Abstract
We report a first search for weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) using the background rejection capabilities of SuperCDMS. An exposure of 577 kg days was analyzed for WIMPs with mass <30 GeV/c(2), with the signal region blinded. Eleven events were observed after unblinding. We set an upper limit on the spin-independent WIMP-nucleon cross section of 1.2×10(-42) cm(2) at 8 GeV/c(2). This result is in tension with WIMP interpretations of recent experiments and probes new parameter space for WIMP-nucleon scattering for WIMP masses <6 GeV/c(2).
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- R Agnese
- Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
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- Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA and Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Department of Physics, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Department of Physics, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244, USA
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- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA
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- Departamento de Física Teórica and Instituto de Física Teórica UAM/CSIC, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Department of Physics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, USA
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- Division of Physics, Mathematics, & Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
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- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7 L 3N6, Canada
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7 L 3N6, Canada
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Departamento de Física Teórica and Instituto de Física Teórica UAM/CSIC, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Division of Physics, Mathematics, & Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- Department of Physics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado 80217, USA
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado 80217, USA
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- Department of Physics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7 L 3N6, Canada
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- Department of Physics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244, USA
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- Departamento de Física Teórica and Instituto de Física Teórica UAM/CSIC, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Physics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7 L 3N6, Canada
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- Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Division of Physics, Mathematics, & Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
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- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7 L 3N6, Canada
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- Department of Physics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, USA
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- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7 L 3N6, Canada
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- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Evansville, Evansville, Indiana 47722, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7 L 3N6, Canada
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA and Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota 57069, USA
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Department of Physics, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244, USA
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- Department of Physics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Department of Physics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Physics, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California 95053, USA
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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Agnese R, Anderson AJ, Asai M, Balakishiyeva D, Basu Thakur R, Bauer DA, Billard J, Borgland A, Bowles MA, Brandt D, Brink PL, Bunker R, Cabrera B, Caldwell DO, Cerdeno DG, Chagani H, Cooley J, Cornell B, Crewdson CH, Cushman P, Daal M, Di Stefano PCF, Doughty T, Esteban L, Fallows S, Figueroa-Feliciano E, Godfrey GL, Golwala SR, Hall J, Harris HR, Hertel SA, Hofer T, Holmgren D, Hsu L, Huber ME, Jastram A, Kamaev O, Kara B, Kelsey MH, Kennedy A, Kiveni M, Koch K, Loer B, Lopez Asamar E, Mahapatra R, Mandic V, Martinez C, McCarthy KA, Mirabolfathi N, Moffatt RA, Moore DC, Nadeau P, Nelson RH, Page K, Partridge R, Pepin M, Phipps A, Prasad K, Pyle M, Qiu H, Rau W, Redl P, Reisetter A, Ricci Y, Saab T, Sadoulet B, Sander J, Schneck K, Schnee RW, Scorza S, Serfass B, Shank B, Speller D, Villano AN, Welliver B, Wright DH, Yellin S, Yen JJ, Young BA, Zhang J. Search for low-mass weakly interacting massive particles using voltage-assisted calorimetric ionization detection in the SuperCDMS experiment. Phys Rev Lett 2014; 112:041302. [PMID: 24580434 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.112.041302] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2013] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
Abstract
SuperCDMS is an experiment designed to directly detect weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), a favored candidate for dark matter ubiquitous in the Universe. In this Letter, we present WIMP-search results using a calorimetric technique we call CDMSlite, which relies on voltage-assisted Luke-Neganov amplification of the ionization energy deposited by particle interactions. The data were collected with a single 0.6 kg germanium detector running for ten live days at the Soudan Underground Laboratory. A low energy threshold of 170 eVee (electron equivalent) was obtained, which allows us to constrain new WIMP-nucleon spin-independent parameter space for WIMP masses below 6 GeV/c2.
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- R Agnese
- Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
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- Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA and Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Department of Physics, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Department of Physics, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244, USA
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- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA
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- Departamento de Física Teórica and Instituto de Física Teórica UAM/CSIC, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, USA
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- Division of Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
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- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Departamento de Física Teórica and Instituto de Física Teórica UAM/CSIC, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Division of Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
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- Department of Physics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado 80217, USA
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- Department of Physics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6
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- Department of Physics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244, USA
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- Departamento de Física Teórica and Instituto de Física Teórica UAM/CSIC, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Physics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6
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- Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Division of Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
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- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6
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- Division of Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
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- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, USA
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- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6
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- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Evansville, Evansville, Indiana 47722, USA
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- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6
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- Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA and Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota 57069, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Department of Physics, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244, USA
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- Department of Physics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Physics, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California 95053, USA
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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Agnese R, Ahmed Z, Anderson AJ, Arrenberg S, Balakishiyeva D, Basu Thakur R, Bauer DA, Billard J, Borgland A, Brandt D, Brink PL, Bruch T, Bunker R, Cabrera B, Caldwell DO, Cerdeno DG, Chagani H, Cooley J, Cornell B, Crewdson CH, Cushman P, Daal M, Dejongh F, do Couto e Silva E, Doughty T, Esteban L, Fallows S, Figueroa-Feliciano E, Filippini J, Fox J, Fritts M, Godfrey GL, Golwala SR, Hall J, Harris RH, Hertel SA, Hofer T, Holmgren D, Hsu L, Huber ME, Jastram A, Kamaev O, Kara B, Kelsey MH, Kennedy A, Kim P, Kiveni M, Koch K, Kos M, Leman SW, Loer B, Lopez Asamar E, Mahapatra R, Mandic V, Martinez C, McCarthy KA, Mirabolfathi N, Moffatt RA, Moore DC, Nadeau P, Nelson RH, Page K, Partridge R, Pepin M, Phipps A, Prasad K, Pyle M, Qiu H, Rau W, Redl P, Reisetter A, Ricci Y, Saab T, Sadoulet B, Sander J, Schneck K, Schnee RW, Scorza S, Serfass B, Shank B, Speller D, Sundqvist KM, Villano AN, Welliver B, Wright DH, Yellin S, Yen JJ, Yoo J, Young BA, Zhang J. Silicon detector dark matter results from the final exposure of CDMS II. Phys Rev Lett 2013; 111:251301. [PMID: 24483735 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.111.251301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2013] [Revised: 07/27/2013] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
Abstract
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 day of data taken between July 2007 and September 2008 revealed three WIMP-candidate events with a surface-event background estimate of 0.41(-0.08)(+0.20)(stat)(-0.24)(+0.28)(syst). Other known backgrounds from neutrons and 206Pb are limited to <0.13 and <0.08 events at the 90% confidence level, respectively. The exposure of this analysis is equivalent to 23.4 kg day for a recoil energy range of 7-100 keV for a WIMP of mass 10 GeV/c2. The probability that the known backgrounds would produce three or more events in the signal region is 5.4%. A profile likelihood ratio test of the three events that includes the measured recoil energies gives a 0.19% probability for the known-background-only hypothesis when tested against the alternative WIMP+background hypothesis. The highest likelihood occurs for a WIMP mass of 8.6 GeV/c2 and WIMP-nucleon cross section of 1.9×10(-41) cm2.
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- R Agnese
- Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
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- Division of Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
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- Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Physics Institute, University of Zürich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057, Switzerland
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- Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Physics Institute, University of Zürich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057, Switzerland
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- Department of Physics, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244, USA
| | - B Cabrera
- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
| | - D O Caldwell
- Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA
| | - D G Cerdeno
- Departamento de Física Teórica and Instituto de Física Teórica UAM/CSIC, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
| | - J Cooley
- Department of Physics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, USA
| | - B Cornell
- Division of Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
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- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
| | - P Cushman
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
| | - E do Couto e Silva
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
| | - T Doughty
- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
| | - L Esteban
- Departamento de Física Teórica and Instituto de Física Teórica UAM/CSIC, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
| | - E Figueroa-Feliciano
- Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
| | - J Filippini
- Division of Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
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- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
| | - M Fritts
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
| | - G L Godfrey
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
| | - S R Golwala
- Division of Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
| | - J Hall
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
| | - R H Harris
- Department of Physics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
| | - S A Hertel
- Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
| | - T Hofer
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
| | - D Holmgren
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
| | - L Hsu
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
| | - M E Huber
- Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Denver, Colorado 80217, USA
| | - A Jastram
- Department of Physics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
| | - O Kamaev
- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
| | - B Kara
- Department of Physics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, USA
| | - M H Kelsey
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
| | - A Kennedy
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
| | - P Kim
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
| | - M Kiveni
- Department of Physics, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244, USA
| | - K Koch
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
| | - M Kos
- Department of Physics, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244, USA
| | - S W Leman
- Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
| | - B Loer
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
| | - E Lopez Asamar
- Departamento de Física Teórica and Instituto de Física Teórica UAM/CSIC, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain
| | - R Mahapatra
- Department of Physics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
| | - V Mandic
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
| | - C Martinez
- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
| | - K A McCarthy
- Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
| | - N Mirabolfathi
- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
| | - R A Moffatt
- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
| | - D C Moore
- Division of Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
| | - P Nadeau
- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
| | - R H Nelson
- Division of Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
| | - K Page
- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
| | - R Partridge
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
| | - M Pepin
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
| | - A Phipps
- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
| | - K Prasad
- Department of Physics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
| | - M Pyle
- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
| | - H Qiu
- Department of Physics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, USA
| | - W Rau
- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
| | - P Redl
- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
| | - A Reisetter
- Department of Physics, University of Evansville, Evansville, Indiana 47722, USA
| | - Y Ricci
- Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
| | - T Saab
- Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
| | - B Sadoulet
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA and Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
| | - J Sander
- Department of Physics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
| | - K Schneck
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
| | - R W Schnee
- Department of Physics, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244, USA
| | - S Scorza
- Department of Physics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, USA
| | - B Serfass
- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
| | - B Shank
- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
| | - D Speller
- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
| | - K M Sundqvist
- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
| | - A N Villano
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
| | - B Welliver
- Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
| | - D H Wright
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
| | - S Yellin
- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
| | - J J Yen
- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
| | - J Yoo
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
| | - B A Young
- Department of Physics, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California 95053, USA
| | - J Zhang
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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