Abstract

The Cryogenic Dark Matter Search Experiment (CDMS) and its successor, SuperCDMS, have had a long history of establishing world-leading upper limits on the interaction of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) with standard model nucleons. SuperCDMS uses arrays of cryogenic germanium detectors to achieve excellent discrimination between the nuclear recoils expected for WIMP interactions and radioactively produced electron recoils through the collection of ionization and athermal phonons. Recent analyses of the data collected from the current installation of Interleaved Z-Sensitive Ionization and Phonon (iZIP) detectors have probed new regions of the WIMP parameter space, particularly in the region of low-mass WIMP interactions. This paper will discuss the current work of the SuperCDMS collaboration.

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