Search for annual modulation in low-energy CDMS-II data
Z Ahmed, DS Akerib, AJ Anderson, S Arrenberg… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2012 - arxiv.org
arXiv preprint arXiv:1203.1309, 2012•arxiv.org
We report limits on annual modulation of the low-energy event rate from the Cryogenic Dark
Matter Search (CDMS II) experiment at the Soudan Underground Laboratory. Such a
modulation could be produced by interactions from Weakly Interacting Massive Particles
(WIMPs) with masses~ 10 GeV/c^ 2. We find no evidence for annual modulation in the event
rate of veto-anticoincident single-detector interactions consistent with nuclear recoils, and
constrain the magnitude of any modulation to< 0.06 event [keVnr kg day]^-1 in the 5-11.9 …
Matter Search (CDMS II) experiment at the Soudan Underground Laboratory. Such a
modulation could be produced by interactions from Weakly Interacting Massive Particles
(WIMPs) with masses~ 10 GeV/c^ 2. We find no evidence for annual modulation in the event
rate of veto-anticoincident single-detector interactions consistent with nuclear recoils, and
constrain the magnitude of any modulation to< 0.06 event [keVnr kg day]^-1 in the 5-11.9 …
We report limits on annual modulation of the low-energy event rate from the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS II) experiment at the Soudan Underground Laboratory. Such a modulation could be produced by interactions from Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) with masses ~10 GeV/c^2. We find no evidence for annual modulation in the event rate of veto-anticoincident single-detector interactions consistent with nuclear recoils, and constrain the magnitude of any modulation to <0.06 event [keVnr kg day]^-1 in the 5-11.9 keVnr energy range at the 99% confidence level. These results disfavor an explanation for the reported modulation in the 1.2-3.2 keVee energy range in CoGeNT in terms of nuclear recoils resulting from elastic scattering of WIMPs at >98% confidence. For events consistent with electron recoils, no significant modulation is observed for either single- or multiple-detector interactions in the 3.0-7.4 keVee range.
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