2015/09/30 by F. Reindl, The CRESST Collaboration, G. Angloher +78
Physics and Astronomy · #Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO) #FOS: Physical sciences #Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det) #astro-ph.CO #physics.ins-det
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1509.09124
Talk presented CIPANP2015, 6 pages, 6 figures
arxiv created 2015/09/30 · arxiv updated 2015/10/01
In the past years the spotlight of the search for dark matter particles widened to the low mass region, both from theoretical and experimental side. We discuss results from data obtained in 2013 with a single detector TUM40. This detector is equipped with a new upgraded holding scheme to efficiently veto backgrounds induced by surface alpha decays. This veto, the low threshold of 0.6keV and an unprecedented background level for CaWO4 target crystals render TUM40 the detector with the best overall performance of CRESST-II phase 2 (July 2013 - August 2015). A low-threshold analysis allowed to investigate light dark matter particles (<3GeV/c2), previously not accessible for other direct detection experiments.