XX Physics in Collision Conference
Lisbon, June 29 - July 1, 2000

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Abstract


"Recent Results from the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search Experiment"



Richard Gaitskell



University of California Berkeley, USA



I will discuss the very recently announced results from the CDMS (Cryogenic Dark Matter Search @ Berkeley/Stanford) Experiment. The experiment is involved in looking for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles that may be the dominant Cold Dark Matter component in the Universe. The creation of these particles ~ 1 ns after the Big Bang at cosmologically interesting abundances is well motivated by Supersymmetry. The DAMA experiment now identifies a 4 sigma positive signal for WIMPs. In contrast the CDMS experiment, which is now more sensitive to scalar coupled WIMPs than DAMA, reports no signal at the same level.

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