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Exclusion Limits on the WIMP-Nucleon Cross-Section from the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search

CDMS Collaboration

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/0002471

Abstract

The Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS) employs Ge and Si detectors to search for WIMPs via their elastic-scattering interactions with nuclei while discriminating against interactions of background particles. CDMS data give limits on the spin-independent WIMP-nucleon elastic-scattering cross-section that exclude unexplored parameter space above 10 GeV c-2 WIMP mass and, at > 84% CL, the entire 3σ allowed region for the WIMP signal reported by the DAMA experiment.

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