First Direct Limits on Lightly Ionizing Particles with Electric Charge Less than e/6

Agnese, R.; Anderson, A. J.; Balakishiyeva, D.; Basu Thakur, R.; Bauer, D. A.; Billard, J.; Borgland, A.; Bowles, M. A.; Brandt, D.; Brink, P. L.; Bunker, R.; Cabrera, B.; Caldwell, D. O.; Cerdeno, D. G.; Chagani, H.; Chen, Y.; Cooley, J.; Cornell, B.; Crewdson, C. H.; Cushman, P.; Daal, M.; Di Stefano, P. C. F.; Doughty, T.; Esteban, L.; Fallows, S.; Figueroa-Feliciano, E.; Godfrey, G. L.; Golwala, S. R.; Hall, J.; Harris, H. R.; Hertel, S. A.; Hofer, T.; Holmgren, D.; Hsu, L.; Huber, M. E.; Jastram, A.; Kamaev, O.; Kara, B.; Kelsey, M. H.; Kennedy, A.; Kiveni, M.; Koch, K.; Leder, A.; Loer, B.; Lopez Asamar, E.; Mahapatra, R.; Mandic, V.; Martinez, C.; McCarthy, K. A.; Mirabolfathi, N.; Moffatt, R. A.; Moore, D. C.; Nelson, H.; Nelson, R. H.; Ogburn, R. W.; Page, K.; Page, W. A.; Partridge, R.; Pepin, M.; Phipps, A.; Prasad, K.; Pyle, M.; Qiu, H.; Rau, W.; Redl, P.; Reisetter, A.; Ricci, Y.; Rogers, H. E.; Saab, T.; Sadoulet, B.; Sander, J.; Schneck, K.; Schnee, R. W.; Scorza, S.; Serfass, B.; Shank, B.; Speller, D.; Upadhyayula, S.; Villano, A. N.; Welliver, B.; Wright, D. H.; Yellin, S.; Yen, J. J.; Young, B. A.; Zhang, J.; Collaboration), (CDMS

doi:10.1103/physrevlett.114.111302

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Improved WIMP-search reach of the CDMS II germanium data (2015)
Journal Article
Agnese, R., Anderson, A., Asai, M., Balakishiyeva, D., Barker, D., Thakur, R. B., …Collaboration), (. (2015). Improved WIMP-search reach of the CDMS II germanium data. Physical Review D, 92(7), Article 072003. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.92.072003

CDMS II data from the five-tower runs at the Soudan Underground Laboratory were reprocessed with an improved charge-pulse fitting algorithm. Two new analysis techniques to reject surface-event backgrounds were applied to the 612 kg days germanium-det... Read More about Improved WIMP-search reach of the CDMS II germanium data.

Fits to the Fermi-LAT GeV excess with right-handed sneutrino dark matter: implications for direct and indirect dark matter searches and the LHC (2015)
Journal Article
Cerdeño, D. G., Peiró, M., & Robles, S. (2015). Fits to the Fermi-LAT GeV excess with right-handed sneutrino dark matter: implications for direct and indirect dark matter searches and the LHC. Physical Review D, 91(12), Article 123530. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.91.123530

We show that the right-handed (RH) sneutrino in the next-to-minimal supersymmetric standard model can account for the observed excess in the Fermi-LAT spectrum of gamma rays from the Galactic center, while fulfilling all the current experimental cons... Read More about Fits to the Fermi-LAT GeV excess with right-handed sneutrino dark matter: implications for direct and indirect dark matter searches and the LHC.

Dark matter effective field theory scattering in direct detection experiments (2015)
Journal Article
Schneck, K., Cabrera, B., Cerdeno, D., Mandic, V., Rogers, H., Agnese, R., …Collaboration), (. (2015). Dark matter effective field theory scattering in direct detection experiments. Physical Review D, 91(9), Article 092004. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.91.092004

We examine the consequences of the effective field theory (EFT) of dark matter–nucleon scattering for current and proposed direct detection experiments. Exclusion limits on EFT coupling constants computed using the optimum interval method are present... Read More about Dark matter effective field theory scattering in direct detection experiments.

Maximum Likelihood Analysis of Low Energy CDMS II Germanium Data (2015)
Journal Article
Agnese, R., Anderson, A., Balakishiyeva, D., Thakur, R. B., Bauer, D., Billard, J., …Zhang, J. (2015). Maximum Likelihood Analysis of Low Energy CDMS II Germanium Data. Physical Review D, 91(5), Article 052021. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.91.052021

We report on the results of a search for a Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP) signal in low-energy data of the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search experiment using a maximum likelihood analysis. A background model is constructed using geant4 to simu... Read More about Maximum Likelihood Analysis of Low Energy CDMS II Germanium Data.

First Direct Limits on Lightly Ionizing Particles with Electric Charge Less than e/6 (2015)
Journal Article
Agnese, R., Anderson, A., Balakishiyeva, D., Basu Thakur, R., Bauer, D., Billard, J., …Collaboration), (. (2015). First Direct Limits on Lightly Ionizing Particles with Electric Charge Less than e/6. Physical Review Letters, 114(11), Article 111302. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.114.111302

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... Read More about First Direct Limits on Lightly Ionizing Particles with Electric Charge Less than e/6.