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• The Collaboration
  
• Collaborator Websites:
  • Caltech
  • CWRU
  • FNAL
  • MIT
  • SCU
  • Southern Methodist University
  • SUF
  • Stanford
  • Syracuse
  • Texas A&M
  • UCBerkeley
  • UCSB
  • U.Florida
  • U.Minnesota
  • Zurich
    
  
  
• CDMS Publications
  and Dissertations

 

The CDMSII Experiment
(Scientific, with explanations of the dark matter problem, WIMPs and our detectors)

• Soudan Underground Laboratory
• Download the research brochure about our activities at the Soudan facility

Scientific Results

• Results from a Low-Energy Analysis of the CDMS II Germanium Data, Phys. Rev. Lett. 106 131302 (2011)   (arXiv:1011.2482 and PRL paper)
• Low-threshold analysis of CDMS shallow-site data, published in Phys. Rev. D82, 122004 (2010).   (arXiv:1010.4290v3 and PRD paper)

• Science article 2/12/2010
  
  • Abstract
  • Printed report(pdf)
  • Supplementary Online Material (pdf)
• Summary of the results: pdf
• Announcement talks December 12, 2009
  • Jodi Cooley SLAC (pdf)
    
  • Berkeley copy of the Jodi Cooley presentation (30 MB .mov)
    
  • High resolution .mov (822 MB Quicktime) copy of the Jodi Cooley presentation
  • High resolution .mov (403 MB MPEG-4) copy of the Jodi Cooley presentation
  • Lauren Hsu Fermilab (pdf)
  • Video of the Lauren Hsu presentation
• Other Talks
  • Talk of B. Sadoulet at the APC (Paris) 11 February 2010 (pdf)
  • Talk of J. Hall at the Marina del Rey Dark Matter workshop 26 February 2010 (pdf)
  • Talk of P. Brink at the Marina del Rey Dark Matter workshop 26 February 2010 (pdf)

• First results from the 5-Tower WIMP search published in Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 011301 (2009). (arXiv PDF and discussion in APS Viewpoints).
• Search for Axions with the CDMS Experiment: Phys. Rev. Lett. 103,141802 (2009). (arXiv, PRL paper, and PRL cover)
• Results from second run (2-Tower) at Soudan: astro-ph/0509259 and astro-ph/0509269
• First results (1-Tower)at the Soudan facility published in Phys. Rev. Lett. 93 (2004)
  (astro-ph/0405033) and in Phys. Rev. D72, 052009 (2005) (astro-ph/0507190)
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• Latest results (2001-2002 data) published in Phys. Rev. D68 (2003)
• Seminar talk given in July 2003 (pdf)

Education and Outreach
(Learn about dark matter and the universe -- for the public!)

• Download a Powerpoint file of our education poster which is on display at the Soudan mine

Photos
Have a look at our experiment site, people and equipment!

• Collaboration photo from March 2002 meeting at Soudan
• Pictures of fridge and icebox in the mine!
• A ZIP detector 
• CDMS cryostat closeup
• CDMS detector assembly mounted in the cryostat
• CDMS cryostat (the IceBox) and shield
• Closeup of a CDMS detector assembly

This work is supported by the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy