First results from the CRESST-III low-mass dark matter program
Max Planck Institute for Physics · University of Coimbra · +10 more institutions
Abstract
The CRESST experiment is a direct dark matter search which aims to measure interactions of potential dark matter particles in an Earth-bound detector. With the current stage, CRESST-III, we focus on a low energy threshold for increased sensitivity towards light dark matter particles. In this paper we describe the analysis of one detector operated in the first run of CRESST-III (05/2016--02/2018) achieving a nuclear recoil threshold of 30.1 eV. This result was obtained with a 23.6 g ${\mathrm{CaWO}}_{4}$ crystal operated as a cryogenic scintillating calorimeter in the CRESST setup at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS). Both the primary phonon (heat) signal and the simultaneously emitted…
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49Topics & keywords
- Physics
- Dark matter
- Calorimeter (particle physics)
- Light dark matter
- Nuclear physics
- Scintillation
- Dark current
- Recoil