Fermilab Cosmic Physics Center

  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 »