SuperCDMS status from Soudan and plans for SNOLab

Sander, J.; Ahmed, Z.; Anderson, A.J.; Arrenberg, S.; Balakishiyeva, D.; Thakur, R.B.; Bauer, D.A.; Brandt, D.; Brink, P.L.; Bunker, R.; Cabrera, B.; Caldwell, D.O.; Cerdeño, D.G.; Chagani, H.; Cooley, J.; Cornell, B.; Crewdson, C.H.; Cushman, P.; Daal, M.; Di Stefano, P.C.F.; Do Couto E Silva, E.; Doughty, T.; Esteban, L.; Fallows, S.; Figueroa-Feliciano, E.; Fox, J.; Fritts, M.; Godfrey, G.L.; Golwala, S.R.; Hall, J.; Hasi, J.; Hertel, S.A.; Hofer, T.; Holmgren, D.; Hsu, L.; Huber, M.E.; Jastram, A.; Kamaev, O.; Kara, B.; Kelsey, M.H.; Kim, P.; Kiveni, M.; Koch, K.; Kos, M.; Leman, S.W.; Liu, S.; Loer, B.; Mahapatra, R.; Mandic, V.; Martinez, C.; Mccarthy, K.A.; Mirabolfathi, N.; Moffat, R.; Moore, D.C.; Nadeau, P.; Nelson, R.; Page, K.; Partridge, R.; Pepin, M.; Phipps, A.; Prasad, K.; Pyle, M.; Qiu, H.; Qiu, X.; Radpour, R.; Rau, W.; Reisetter, A.; Resch, R.W.; Ricci, Y.; Saab, T.; Sadoulet, B.; Schnee, R.W.; Scorza, S.; Serfass, B.; Shank, B.; Shneck, K.; Speller, D.; Sundqvist, K...

Abstract

Matter, as we know it, makes up less than 5% of the Universe. Various astrophysical observations have confirmed that one quarter of the Universe and most of the matter content in the Universe is made up of Dark Matter. The nature of Dark Matter is yet to be discovered and is one of the biggest questions in Physics. Particle Physics combined with astrophysical measurements of the abundance gives rise to a Dark Matter candidate called Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP). The low density of WIMPs in the galaxies and the extremely weak nature of the interaction with ordinary matter make detection of the WIMP an extraordinarily challenging task, with abundant fakes from various radioactive and cosmogenic backgrounds with much stronger electromagnetic interaction. The extremely weak nature of the WIMP interaction dictates detectors that have extremely low naturally occurring radioactive background, a large active volume (mass) of sensitive detector material to maximize statistics, a highly efficient detector based rejection mechanism for the dominant electromagnetic background and sophisticated analysis techniques to reject any residual background. This paper describes the status of the SuperCDMS experiment.

Citation

Sander, J., Ahmed, Z., Anderson, A., Arrenberg, S., Balakishiyeva, D., Thakur, R., Bauer, D., Brandt, D., Brink, P., Bunker, R., Cabrera, B., Caldwell, D., Cerdeño, D., Chagani, H., Cooley, J., Cornell, B., Crewdson, C., Cushman, P., Daal, M., Di Stefano, P., …Mohapatra, R. N. (2023, July). SuperCDMS status from Soudan and plans for SNOLab. Presented at CETUP* 2012 - Workshop on Dark Matter, Unification and Neutrino Physics., South Dakota, USA

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (published)
• Conference Name: CETUP* 2012 - Workshop on Dark Matter, Unification and Neutrino Physics.
• Start Date: Jul 10, 2023
• End Date: Aug 1, 2012
• Acceptance Date: May 23, 2013
• Online Publication Date: May 23, 2013
• Publication Date: May 23, 2013
• Deposit Date: Dec 2, 2016
• Publicly Available Date: Dec 5, 2016
• Pages: 129-135
• Series Title: AIP conference proceedings
• Series Number: 1534
• Series ISSN: 0094-243X,1551-7616
• Book Title: Workshop on dark matter, unification and neutrino physics : CETUP* 2012, South Dakota, USA, 10 July-01 August 2012.
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4807350
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1147975