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Wednesday, February 28, 2007 11:00am
Location: Applied Physics 200
Paul Brink, Department of Physics, Stanford University
speaking for the (Super)CDMS collaboration
“Present status and future plans of the
Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS)”
Presently CDMS is part-way through the operation of the CDMS-II experiment, housed at the Soudan mine, Minnesota, and has released the most sensitive WIMP-nucleon cross-section exclusion limits to date. We report on the ongoing activites at Soudan, which include the operation of the full CDMS-II payload since mid-2006. The expected final reach of CDMS-II by the end of 2007 is a WIMP-nucleon cross-section sensitivity of 2.1 x10^-44 cm2, at a WIMP mass of 60 GeV/c2.
To proceed further, we have proposed the SuperCDMS program. In the first phases, each detector element is 2.5 times thicker than the CDMS-II crystals, thus allowing the more rapid deployment of a larger payload. The first phase we have recently proposed for funding is the Detector Project which will deploy the new detectors at the Soudan mine, followed by a 25~kg experiment which will need to be performed at a site deeper than Soudan in order not to be limited by a muon-induced neutron background and reach a desired goal of 1.3x10^-45 cm. These cross-sections, and approximate WIMP mass determinations from the kinematics of discovery events, are of interest and are complimentary to Supersymmetry investigations at the LHC and future linear colliders.
Dr. Paul L. Brink is a senior research scientist in the Stanford Physics Department engaged in the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS) experiment. Dr. Brink served as chair of the collaboration's detector sub-system group to oversee the fabrication and testing of the athermal phonon detectors required for the CDMS-II experiment, and was also heavily involved in the commissioning of the experiment's cryogenic system sited at the Soudan mine, Minnesota. Dr Brink has also contributed to NASA projects for both developing X-ray detectors, of interest to survey the warm-hot intergalactic medium (WHIM) dark matter; and optical-photon photo-spectrometers optimized to study compact, rapidly time-varying sources.
Between 1997 and 1999 Dr. Brink developed superconductive instruments at Oxford Instruments, Cambridge U.K. Projects included X-ray detectors for material characterization, high-performance Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices (SQUIDs), a superconducting gravity gradiometer for mineralogical exploration, and a cyrogenic current comparator. Previously, Dr. Brink had participated as a Post-doc affiliate in the CDMS-I experiment performed on the Stanford campus in HEPL ES-III. Dr Brink received his MA degree and D. Phil from Oxford University, his thesis explored the interaction of X-ray photons in low-temperature superconductors.
Wednesday, February 28, 2007 11:00am
Location: Applied Physics 200
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Christopher D. Bass,
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