The SuperCDMS SNOLAB dark matter experiment completed installation and initial cool down underground at SNOLAB in Sudbury, Canada. SuperCDMS SNOLAB is now preparing to start commissioning and data taking, with the target of detecting light dark matter candidates. Fermilab led the design and fabrication of the SuperCDMS SNOLAB cryogenic system, the warm electronics and associated… More »
A new paper by the SuperCDMS collaboration places improved constraints on dark matter with a small array of cryogenic detectors (named HVeV). These detectors were operated in the NEXUS underground test stand, which is situated 100 meters underground in the Fermilab NuMI hall. The data revealed a background that was time-correlated between detectors (shown… More »
DM-Ice is a new experimental initiative. By building a 250 kg array of NaI crystals within the volume of the IceCube neutrino detector, DM-Ice will provide a direct check of the DAMA dark matter result. DAMA/LIBRA and its predecessor, DAMA/NaI, are the only experiments that claim to have observed dark matter interacting with ordinary matter. … More »
