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Search for dark photons using data from CRESST-II Phase 2
Gütlein, A.; Angloher, G.; Bento, A.; Bucci, C.; Canonica, L.; Defay, X.; Erb, A.; Feilitzsch, F v; Iachellini, N Ferreiro; Gorla, P.; Hauff, D.Understanding the nature and origin of dark matter is one of the most important challenges for modern particle physics. During the previous decade the sensitivities of direct dark matter searches have improved by several orders of magnitude. These experiments focus their work mainly on the search for dark-matter particles interacting with nuclei (e.g. Weakly Interacting Massive Particles, WIMPs). However, there...
New results on low-mass dark matter from the CRESST-II experiment
Petricca, F.; Angloher, G.; Bento, A.; Bucci, C.; Canonica, L.; Defay, X.; Erb, A.; v Feilitzsch, F.; Ferreiro Iachellini, N.; Gorla, P.; Gütlein, A.The CRESST-II experiment is searching for dark matter particles via their elastic scattering off nuclei in a target material. The CRESST target consists of scintillating CaWO4 crystals which are operated as cryogenic calorimeters at millikelvin temperatures and read out by transition edge sensors. Each interaction in the CaWO4 target crystal produces a phonon signal and also a light signal that is measured by a...