Extending the CRESST-II commissioning run limits to lower masses

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Motivated by the recent interest in light weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) of mass ∼O(10GeV/c2), an extension of the elastic, spin-independent, WIMP-nucleon cross-section limits resulting from the CRESST-II commissioning run (2007) are presented. Previously, these data were used to set cross-section limits from 1000GeV/c2 down to ∼17GeV/c2, using tungsten recoils, in 47.9 kg-days of exposure of calcium tungstate. Here, the overlap of the oxygen and calcium bands with the acceptanc...

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Authors: Brown, A; Henry, S; Kraus, H; McCabe, C

• Journal: Physical Review D
• Volume: 85
• Issue: 2
• Publication date: 2012-01-18
• DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.85.021301
• EISSN: 1550-2368
• ISSN: 1550-7998
• Language: English