S. Upadhyayula

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: 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: In this article, an improved charge-pulse fitting algorithm was used to reject surface-event backgrounds in the 612 kg days germanium-detector weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP)-search exposure.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the consequences of the effective field theory (EFT) of dark matter-nucleon scattering for current and proposed direct detection experiments and showed that spectral differences between the standard dark matter model and a general EFT interaction can produce bias when calculating exclusion limits and when developing signal models for likelihood and machine learning techniques.

TL;DR: The Texas Active Target (TexAT) detector as discussed by the authors is a new active target time projection chamber (TPC) that was built at the Cyclotron Institute Texas A&M University.