H. Qiu

TL;DR: The first search for weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) using the background rejection capabilities of SuperCDMS was reported in this article, where an exposure of 577 kg days was analyzed for WIMPs with mass <30 ǫ, with the signal region blinded.

TL;DR: In this paper, a blind analysis of 140.2 kg data taken between July 2007 and September 2008 revealed three WIMP-candidate events with a surface event background estimate of 0.41 and 0.08 events at the 90% confidence level, respectively.

TL;DR: The CDMS low ionization threshold experiment (CDMSlite) uses cryogenic germanium detectors operated at a relatively high bias voltage to amplify the phonon signal in the search for weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs).

TL;DR: Results of a search for weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPS) with the silicon detectors of the CDMS II experiment revealed three WIMP-candidate events with a surface-event background estimate of 0.41, with a profile likelihood ratio test giving a 0.19% probability for the known-background-only hypothesis when tested against the alternative WIMp+background hypothesis.

TL;DR: This Letter presents WIMP-search results using a calorimetric technique the authors call CDMSlite, which relies on voltage-assisted Luke-Neganov amplification of the ionization energy deposited by particle interactions to constrain new WIMp-nucleon spin-independent parameter space for W IMP masses below 6 GeV/c2.