Final results of the EDELWEISS-II WIMP search using a 4-kg array of cryogenic germanium detectors with interleaved electrodes

The EDELWEISS-II Collaboration has completed a direct search for WIMP dark matter with an array of ten 400-g cryogenic germanium detectors in operation at the Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane. The combined use of thermal phonon sensors and charge collection electrodes with an interleaved geometry en...

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Published in:Physics letters. B 2011-08, Vol.702 (5), p.329-335
Main Authors: Armengaud, E., Augier, C., Benoît, A., Bergé, L., Blümer, J., Broniatowski, A., Brudanin, V., Censier, B., Chardin, G., Chapellier, M., Charlieux, F., Coulter, P., Cox, G.A., Defay, X., De Jesus, M., Dolgorouki, Y., Domange, J., Dumoulin, L., Eitel, K., Filosofov, D., Fourches, N., Gascon, J., Gerbier, G., Gironnet, J., Gros, M., Henry, S., Hervé, S., Juillard, A., Kluck, H., Kozlov, V., Kraus, H., Kudryavtsev, V.A., Loaiza, P., Marnieros, S., Navick, X.-F., Nones, C., Olivieri, E., Pari, P., Pattavina, L., Paul, B., Robinson, M., Rozov, S., Sanglard, V., Schmidt, B., Scorza, S., Semikh, S., Torrento-Coello, A.S., Vagneron, L., Verdier, M.-A., Walker, R.J., Yakushev, E.
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Language:English
Subjects:
Arrays
Astrophysics
Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics
Cross sections
Cryogenic Ge detectors
Dark matter
Detectors
Electrodes
Elementary particles
Exact sciences and technology
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Inelastic scattering
Nuclear physics
Nucleons
Physics
Sciences of the Universe
Searching
The physics of elementary particles and fields
WIMP searches
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Summary:The EDELWEISS-II Collaboration has completed a direct search for WIMP dark matter with an array of ten 400-g cryogenic germanium detectors in operation at the Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane. The combined use of thermal phonon sensors and charge collection electrodes with an interleaved geometry enables the efficient rejection of γ-induced radioactivity as well as near-surface interactions. A total effective exposure of 384 kg d has been achieved, mostly coming from fourteen months of continuous operation. Five nuclear recoil candidates are observed above 20 keV, while the estimated background is 3.0 events. The result is interpreted in terms of limits on the cross-section of spin-independent interactions of WIMPs and nucleons. A cross-section of 4.4×10−8 pb is excluded at 90%CL for a WIMP mass of 85 GeV. New constraints are also set on models where the WIMP-nucleon scattering is inelastic.
ISSN:0370-2693
1873-2445
DOI:10.1016/j.physletb.2011.07.034