Limits on WIMP dark matter using scintillating CaWO4 cryogenic detectors with active background suppression

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2004-07-30

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0408006v3

Astropart.Phys.23:325-339,2005

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

24 pages, 10 figures, version v2 includes figures with improved print quality, v3 accepted for publication in astroparticle ph

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.astropartphys.2005.01.

We present first significant limits on WIMP dark matter by the phonon-light technique, where combined phonon and light signals from a scintillating cryogenic detector are used. Data from early 2004 with two 300 g CRESST-II prototype detector modules are presented, with a net exposure of 20.5 kg days. The modules consist of a CaWO4 scintillating ``target'' crystal and a smaller cryogenic light detector. The combination of phonon and light signals leads to a strong suppression of non-nuclear recoil backgrounds. Using this information to define an acceptance region for nuclear recoils we have 16 events from the two modules, corresponding to a rate for nuclear recoils between 12 and 40 keV of (0.87 +- 0.22) events/(kg day). This is compatible with the rate expected from neutron background, and most of these events lie in the region of the phonon-light plane anticipated for neutron-induced recoils. A particularly strong limit for WIMPs with coherent scattering results from selecting a region of the phonon-light plane corresponding to tungsten recoils, where the best module shows zero events.

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