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in the News

• The Collaboration
  
• Collaborator Websites:
  • Brown U.
  • Caltech
  • CWRU
  • FNAL
  • MIT
  • SCU
  • 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

• At Soudan (underground):
• NEW First results from the 5-Tower WIMP search published in Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 011301 (2009). [arXiv PDF] and discussion in APS Viewpoints.
• CDMS updates from 2007 APS April Meeting:
  Overview (Qiu), Background discrimination (Filippini),
  Neutron simulations (Hennings-Yeomans), and Detector development (Pyle).
• Results from second run at Soudan: astro-ph/0509259 and astro-ph/0509269
• First results 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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• At Stanford:
• 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