Results from 730 kg days of the CRESST-II Dark Matter search
Max Planck Institute for Physics · Max Planck Society · +4 more institutions
Abstract
The CRESST-II cryogenic Dark Matter search, aiming at detection of WIMPs via elastic scattering off nuclei in CaWO4 crystals, completed 730 kg days of data taking in 2011. We present the data collected with eight detector modules, each with a two-channel readout; one for a phonon signal and the other for coincidently produced scintillation light. The former provides a precise measure of the energy deposited by an interaction, and the ratio of scintillation light to deposited energy can be used to discriminate different types of interacting particles and thus to distinguish possible signal events from the dominant backgrounds. Sixty-seven events are found in the acceptance region where a WIMP signal in the form…
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Authors
36- GAG. AngloherCorresponding
Max Planck Institute for Physics, Max Planck Society
- MBM. Bauer
University of Tübingen
- IBI. Bavykina
Max Planck Institute for Physics, Max Planck Society
- ABA. Bento
University of Coimbra, Max Planck Institute for Physics
- CBC. Bucci
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso
Topics & keywords
- Dark matter
- Psychology
- Physics
- Astrophysics
- Reduced inequalities