CDMS Ph.D. Theses (listed in reverse chronological order)

R.W. Ogburn, A search for particle dark matter using cryogenic germanium and silicon detectors in the one- and two-tower runs of CDMS-II at Soudan, Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Physics, Stanford University (2008). pdf

J. Sander, Results from the Crogenic Dark Matter Search Using a Chi Squared Analysis, Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Physics, University of California at Santa Barbara (2007). pdf or ps

M.J. Attisha, Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS-II) - Application of Neural Networks and Wavelets to Event Analysis, Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Physics, Brown University (2006). pdf

A.J. Reisetter, Results from the Two-Tower Run of the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search, Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Physics, University of Minnesota (2005). pdf

G. Wang, The Cryogenic Dark Matter Search and Background Rejection with Event Position Information, Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Physics, Case Western Reserve University (2005). pdf

S. Kamat, Extending the Sensitivity to the Detection of WIMP Dark Matter with an Improved Understanding of the Limiting Neutron Backgrounds, Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Physics, Case Western Reserve University (2005). pdf

C.L. Chang, The Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS-II) Experiment - First Results from the Soudan Mine, Ph.D. Thesis, Stanford University (2004). pdf

V. Mandic, First Results from the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search Experiment at the Deep Site, Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley (2004). pdf

D.D. Driscoll, Development and Performance of Detectors for the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search Experiment with an Increased Sensitivity Based on a Maximum Likelihood Analysis of Beta Contamination, Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Physics, Case Western Reserve University (2004). pdf

T. Saab, Search for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles with the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search Experiment, Ph.D. Thesis, Stanford University (2002). pdf

T.A. Perera, The Limiting Background in a Dark Matter Search at Shallow Depth, Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Physics, Case Western Reserve University (2001). pdf

S. Golwala, Exclusion Limits on WIMP-Nucleon Elastic Scattering Cross-Section from the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search, Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley (2000). pdf

A.H. Sonnenschein, A Search for Weakly Interacting Dark Matter Particles with Low Temperature Detectors Capable of Simultaneously Measuring Ionization and Heat, Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Physics, University of California at Santa Barbara (1999). ps

R. Clarke, An Athermal Phonon Mediated Dark Matter Detector With Surface Event Discrimination, Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Physics, Stanford University (1999). pdf

S. Nam, Development of Phonon-Mediated Cryogenic Particle Detectors with Electron and Nuclear Recoil Discrimination, Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Physics, Stanford University (1998). pdf

P.D. Barnes, Jr., The Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS), Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley (1996). pdf

A.J. Da Silva, Development of a Low Background Environment for the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search, Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Physics, University British Columbia (1996). pdf

W.K. Stockwell, "A Cryogenic Search for WIMP Dark Matter," Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley (1996). (not available in electronic format)

K.D. Irwin, Phonon-Mediated Particle Detection Using Superconducting Tungsten Transition-Edge Sensors, Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Physics, Stanford University (1995). pdf

T.A. Shutt, A Dark Matter Detector Based on the Simultaneous Measurement of Phonons and Ionization at 20 mK, Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley (1993). pdf

N. Wang, "A Cryogenic Phonon Detector to Search for Dark Matter Particles," Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley (1991). (not available in electronic format)


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