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CRESST Detectors for Nonbaryonic Cold Dark Matter Particles

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 May 2016

Thomas Jagemann
Thomas Jagemann*
Affiliation:
Physik-Department E15, Technische Universität München, James-Franck-Straße, 85748 Garching, Germany

Abstract

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The CRESST experiment is set up for the direct detection of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) which our Galactic dark matter halo possibly consists of. the employed detection method is elastic scattering by nuclei. the recoiling nucleus deposits most of its energy in the form of lattice vibrations in the detector. Cooling the detector to very low temperatures (mK) enhances the temperature rise due to the energy deposition. the crucial parameter for direct WIMP searches is the sensitivity to the WIMP interaction cross section in a certain range of possible WIMP masses. CRESST is now sensitive enough to explore the parameter space predicted by supersymmetric models.

Type
Part 15: Direct Detection of Elementary Particles
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 220: Dark Matter in Galaxies , 2004 , pp. 493 - 494
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2004 

References

Angloher, G., 2002, on behalf of the CRESST Collaboration, in Astrop. Physics 18, 43.Google Scholar