Abstract
The Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS) employs Ge and Si detectors to search for weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) via their elastic-scattering interactions with nuclei while discriminating against interactions of background particles. CDMS data, accounting for the neutron background, give limits on the spin-independent WIMP-nucleon elastic-scattering cross section that exclude unexplored parameter space above WIMP mass and, at C.L., the entire allowed region for the WIMP signal reported by the DAMA experiment.
- Received 28 February 2000
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.5699
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