Cryogenic Dark Matter Search: Limits and projections

The results from the second run of the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search experiment in the Soudan Underground Laboratory yields new exclusion limits on the coherent WIMPnucleon scalar cross-sections for WIMP masses above 15 GeV/c². Two towers, each consisting of six detectors, were operated in the mine for 74.5 live days, doubling the previous Ge exposure to 34 kg-d after cuts for recoil energies of 10-100 keV. When combined with the data from the first run at Soudan, the new upper limit is 1.6 × 10^-43 cm² for a 60 GeV WIMP using the standard dark-matter halo and nuclear physics WIMP model. This is a factor of 2.5 lower than our previous limit and a factor of 10 lower than any other experiment. Limits from the Si data (12 kg-d) are less stringent, but extend the excluded region for low mass WIMPs. CDMS also has sensitivity to spin-dependent limits.