In:
Journal of Low Temperature Physics, Springer Science and Business Media LLC, Vol. 199, No. 1-2 ( 2020-04), p. 547-555
Abstract:
Cryogenic Rare Event Search with Superconducting Thermometers (CRESST) is a long-standing direct dark matter detection experiment with cryogenic detectors located at the underground facility Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Italy. CRESST-III, the third generation of CRESST, was specifically designed to have a world-leading sensitivity for low-mass dark matter (DM) (less than 2 GeV/ $$\hbox {c}^{2}$$ c 2 ) to probe the spin-independent DM-nucleus cross section. At present, a large part of the parameter space for spin-independent scattering off nuclei remains untested for dark matter particles with masses below few GeV/ $$\hbox {c}^{2}$$ c 2 although many motivated theoretical models having been proposed. The CRESST-III experiment employs scintillating $$\hbox {CaWO}_{{4}}$$ CaWO 4 crystals of $$\sim$$ ∼ 25 g as target material for dark matter interactions operated as cryogenic scintillating calorimeters at $$\sim$$ ∼ 10 mK. CRESST-III first data taking was successfully completed in 2018, achieving an unprecedented energy threshold for nuclear recoils. This result extended the present sensitivity to DM particles as light as $$\sim$$ ∼ 160 MeV/ $$\hbox {c}^{2}$$ c 2 . In this paper, an overview of the CRESST-III detectors and results will be presented.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0022-2291
,
1573-7357
DOI:
10.1007/s10909-020-02343-3
Language:
English
Publisher:
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Publication Date:
2020
detail.hit.zdb_id:
2016984-X
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