The SuperCDMS proposal for dark matter detection
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Presently the CDMS-II collaboration’s Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP) search at the Soudan Underground Laboratory sets the most stringent exclusion limits of any WIMP cold dark matter direct-detection experiment. To extend our reach further, to WIMP-nucleon cross-sections in the range 10 46 10 44 cm, we propose SuperCDMS, which would take advantage of a very deep site. One promising site is the recently approved SNOLab facility in Canada. In this paper we will present our overall program and focus on phase A of SuperCDMS. r 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. PACS: 14.80.Ly; 95.35.+d
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تاریخ انتشار 2005