IPA 2013

Session

Status of Direct Searches for Low-Mass WIMPs

15 May 2013, 12:25

Union South

66. Status of Direct Searches for Low Mass WIMPs

Lauren Hsu (FNAL)

15/05/2013, 12:25

Lauren Hsu - Dark Matter Searches with CDMS Silicon Detectors

The standard WIMP pardigm motivates us to search for relic dark matter in the form of an O(100) GeV particle. Traditional direct detection experiments have thus been designed to search for WIMPs in the mass range of several 10's to 1000's of GeV. However, in past years there have been a series of direct detection experiments reporting excess events over background at the lowest recoil...