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Dark Matter: Looking for WIMPs in the Galactic Halo Dan Akerib Case Western Reserve University CDMS Collaboratio n PANIC 27 October 2005

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Dark Matter: Looking for WIMPs inthe Galactic Halo

Dan AkeribCase Western Reserve University

CDMS Collaboration

PANIC27 October 2005

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Standard Cosmology

WMAP

WMAP

Colley, Turner & Tyson from Perlmutter, Phys. Today

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Non-Baryonic Dark Matter

• Matter density ΩMatter = 0.30 ± 0.04

• Big Bang Nucleosynthesis ΩBaryons = 0.05 ± 0.005

• Nature of dark matter

Non-baryonic Large scale structure predicts

DM is ‘cold’

• WIMPs – Weakly InteractingMassive Particle ~10–1000 GeV Thermal relics

TFO ~ m/20 σA∼ electroweak scale

SUSY/LSP

Production = Annihilation (T≥mχ)

Production suppressed (T<mχ)

Freeze out: H > ΓA~ nχ 〈σA v 〉

1 10 100 1000

mχ / T (time)

C o m o v i n g N u m b e r D e n

s i t y

~exp(-m/T)

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WIMPs in the Galactic Halo

WIMPs – the source of Mass in the Rotation

Curves?

halo

bulge

disksun

The Milky Way

WIMPdetector

energy transferred appears in‘wake’ of recoiling nucleus

WIMP-Nucleus Scattering

Erecoil

L o g ( r a t e )

Scatter from a Nucleus in a TerrestrialParticle Detector

〈E〉~ 30 keV

Γ < 1/kg/day

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SUSY Dark Matter: elastic scattering cross section

• The ‘standard’ progress plot in our

business Sample SUSY parameter space

Apply accelerator and other particle physics constraints

Bound on relic density, eg, WMAP

→ Extract WIMP-nucleon cross-

section (~event rate) versus WIMPmass

Experimental bounds &unconstrained models

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SUSY Dark Matter: elastic scattering cross section

• The ‘standard’ progress plot in our

business Sample SUSY parameter space

Apply accelerator and other particle physics constraints

Bound on relic density, eg, WMAP

→ Extract WIMP-nucleon cross-

section (~event rate) versus WIMPmass

Constrained by theory

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SUSY Dark Matter: elastic scattering cross section

• The ‘standard’ progress plot in our

business Sample SUSY parameter space

Apply accelerator and other particle physics constraints

Bound on relic density, eg, WMAP

→ Extract WIMP-nucleon cross-

section (~event rate) versus WIMPmass

Constrained modelsConstrained by theory

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SUSY Dark Matter: elastic scattering cross section

• The ‘standard’ progress plot in our

business Sample SUSY parameter space

Apply accelerator and other particle physics constraints

Bound on relic density, eg, WMAP

→ Extract WIMP-nucleon cross-

section (~event rate) versus WIMPmass

Constrained modelsTheoretical benchmarks

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SUSY Dark Matter: elastic scattering cross section

• The ‘standard’ progress plot in our

business Sample SUSY parameter space

Apply accelerator and other particle physics constraints

Bound on relic density, eg, WMAP

→ Extract WIMP-nucleon cross-

section (~event rate) versus WIMPmass

Constrained by theory

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SUSY Dark Matter: elastic scattering cross section

• The ‘standard’ progress plot in our

business Sample SUSY parameter space

Apply accelerator and other particle physics constraints

Bound on relic density, eg, WMAP

→ Extract WIMP-nucleon cross-

section (~event rate) versus WIMPmass

Muon g-2 from SUSY?

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SUSY Dark Matter: elastic scattering cross section

• The ‘standard’ progress plot in our

business Sample SUSY parameter space

Apply accelerator and other particle physics constraints

Bound on relic density, eg, WMAP

→ Extract WIMP-nucleon cross-

section (~event rate) versus WIMPmass

Muon g-2 from SUSY?

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Direct Detection and Accelerators

L H C

o n l y

I L C ( 5

0 0 ) o n l y

2 5 k g S C

D M S

Direct Detection

only

Excluded by Direct Detection

E x c l u

d e d b y A c c e l e r a t o r s Overlap

• Broad mass range of DirectDetection LHC has 2 Tev limit for gluino,

squark, slepton: neutralinosonly up to 300 GeV in mostSUSY models

Direct Detection may indicate a

mass too large for LHC andprovide clues for ILC

• Accelerators reach down tolower elastic cross section

Potential guidance for directdetection searches

• Rich physics in overlap regionof LHC and 10–100 kg DM expt Exciting opportunity to establish

concordant model

http://dmtools.brown.edu/gaitskell&mandic

C D M S - I I

L i m i t

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WIMPs and SUSY

• LHC/ILC constraints

compared with direct DMsearches by Linear Collider Cosmologyworking group Specify a benchmark model,

eg, here LCC1 is mSugra‘bulk region,’ consistentwith WMAP relic density

Explore range of all modelscompatible with accelerator

data Constrain secondary

parameters, eg, neutralinomixing angles and elasticcross section

elastic cross section

ILC+LHC-500

LHC

ILC+LHC-1000

MW from LHC

LCC1

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How do we makemeasurements?

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What nature has to offer

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What you hope for!

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Getting rid of the ‘haystack’: Recoil Discrimination

• Measure division of depositedenergy into multiple channels ionization

heat

athermal phonons timing

scintillation timing

• Exploit differential response

• Also, background immunity from directional

threshold

Energy (Ch. 1)

B a c k g r o u

n d

S i g n a l

E n e r g y ( C h .

2 )

WIMPs ‘look’ different – recoil discrimination

Photons and electrons scatter from electrons

WIMPs (and neutrons) scatter from nuclei

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Getting rid of the ‘haystack’: Recoil Discrimination

Ephonons Erecoil

E c h a

r g e

C h a r g e

Y i e l d

B a c k g r o u

n d Background

Signal S i g n a

l

WIMPs ‘look’ different – recoil discrimination

Photons and electrons scatter from electrons

WIMPs (and neutrons) scatter from nuclei

In CDMS:

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Getting rid of the ‘haystack’: Recoil Discrimination

Ethermal Erecoil

E c h a

r g e

C h a r g e

Y i e l d

B a c k g r o u

n d Background

Signal S i g n a

l

Gammas

Neutrons

WIMPs ‘look’ different – recoil discrimination

Photons and electrons scatter from electrons

WIMPs (and neutrons) scatter from nuclei

In CDMS:

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Getting rid of the ‘haystack’: Recoil Discrimination

Ethermal Erecoil

E c h a

r g e

C h a r g e

Y i e l d

B a

c k g r o u

n d Background

Signal S i g n a

l

Gammas

>50000:1 rejection

WIMPs ‘look’ different – recoil discrimination Photons and electrons scatter from electrons

WIMPs (and neutrons) scatter from nuclei

In CDMS:

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CDMS: Cryogenic “ZIP” detectors

RTES

(Ω)

4

3

2

1

T (mK)T c ~ 80mK

~ 10mK

Superconducting films that

detect minute amounts of heat

Transition Edge Sensor sensitive tofast athermal phonons

Ionization measurement

1 μm tungstenaluminum fins

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Betas: a low-yield background source

• Low-energy electrons (tagged •) that interact in detector

surface “dead layer” result in reduced ionization yield

5 0 , 0 0 0 g a m m a c a l i b r a t

i o n e v e n t s

Nuclear-recoil WIMP-signal region

Neutrons from252Cf source

31K Gammas

from133Ba Source

Accept

Reject

Ionization Yield

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Second Soudan Run WIMP-search data

ESTIMATE BKG: 0.4 ± 0.2 (sys.) ± 0.2 (stat.)electron recoils, 0.05 recoils from neutrons expected.

Optimized for ~0.5 background events

Z2/Z3/Z5/Z9/Z11

1 candidate

(barely) near-miss

Z2/Z3/Z5/Z9/Z11

I o n i z a t i o n Y i e l d

Recoil Energy (keV)

I o n i z a t i o n

Y i e l d

Recoil Energy (keV)0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

1.5

1.0

0.5

0.0

0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

1.5

1.0

0.5

0.0

Before timing cuts After timing cuts

34 kg-d after cuts

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1st Year CDMS Soudan Combined Limits

• Upper limits on theWIMP- nucleon cross

section are 1.7×10-43 cm2 for a WIMP withmass of 60 GeV/c2

Factor 10 lower thanany other experiment

• Excludes regions of SUSY parameter spaceunder someframeworks Bottino et al. 2004 in

magenta (relax GUT

Unif.) Ellis et al. 2005

(CMSSM) in green

90% CL upper limits assumingstandard halo, A2 scaling (Spin. Ind.)

Z E P L I N I

E D E L W E I S

S

C D M S G e 2 - T o

w e r

C D M S G e

C o m b i n e

d

C r o s s s e c t i o n [ c m 2 ] ( n o r

m a l i z e d t o n u c l e o n )

WIMP Mass [GeV/c2 ]

1-tower: PRL 93, 211301 (2004); PRD 72 , 052009 (2005)

C D M S S i

2 - T o w e r D A M A

1 9 9 6

2-tower and combined: astro-ph/0509259

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DAMA: NaI & Annual Modulation

100-kg detector mass, but no

rejection of gamma background

JuneJune

Dec DecDec

±2% Background

WIMP Signal

JuneJune

Dec DecDec

1 Y CDMS S d C bi d Li i

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1st Year CDMS Soudan Combined Limits

• Upper limits on theWIMP- nucleon cross

section are 1.7×10-43 cm2 for a WIMP withmass of 60 GeV/c2

Factor 10 lower thanany other experiment

• Excludes regions of SUSY parameter spaceunder someframeworks Bottino et al. 2004 in

magenta (relax GUT

Unif.) Ellis et al. 2005

(CMSSM) in green

90% CL upper limits assumingstandard halo, A2 scaling (Spin. Ind.)

Z E P L I N I

E D E L W E I S

S

C D M S G e 2 - T o

w e r

C D M S G e

C o m b i n e

d

C r o s s

s e c t i o n [ c m 2 ] ( n o r

m a l i z e d t o n u c l e o n )

WIMP Mass [GeV/c2 ]

1-tower: PRL 93, 211301 (2004); PRD 72 , 052009 (2005)

C D M S S i

2 - T o w e r D A M A

1 9 9 6

2-tower and combined: astro-ph/0509259

DAMA 7-year NaI, Bernabei et al., astro-ph/0307403

DAMA Na ann. mod.(Gondolo/Gelmini)

S i D d WIMP li i

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Spin-Dependent WIMP limits

ZEPLIN I

CRESST I

DAMA/NaI

CDMS II Ge

CDMS II Si

CDMS Stanford Si

CDMS II Ge

CDMS II Si

CDMS Stanford Si

CRESST I

DAMA/NaI

NAIAD

Super-K

Neutron coupling Proton coupling

Following the method of C. Savage, P. Gondolo, and K.

Freese, PRD70, 123513 (2004) (astro-ph/0408346).

http://dmtools.brown.edu/gaitskell&mandic

astro-ph/0509269

different nuclear form factors

S d d b d h d h t 1 t

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Soudan and beyond: phased approach to 1-ton

• Maximize discovery

potential Background-free Lots of information

on each event

CDMS II today

CDMS II Soudan goal 2007

SuperCDMS:

Phase A (25 kg) 2011Phase B (150 kg)

Phase C (1000 kg)

25-kg technically ready and

endorsed by SNOLab

ZEPLIN I

EDELWEISS

ZEPLIN 2 goal

XENON 10 goal

http://dmtools.brown.edu/gaitskell&mandic

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Survey of other techniques

Ed l i I i F j T l “1 k ” t

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• First data taking in Fall 2000 at 4800 mwe depth

Detector improvements: 2nd data set early 2002• 3rd data taking: October 2002 - March 2003

Archeologicallead

3 * 320 g Ge detectors:heat and ionizationsimultaneous readout(NTD thermistor)Installed May 2002

Edelweiss-I in Frejus Tunnel: “1 kg” stage

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EDELWEISS-I results

• 2000-2003: Exposure of ~60 kg-d

Three nuclear recoil candidates (30-100keV) consistent with neutron bkg

E D E L

W E I S S

- I

C D M

S - I I ( 2

0 0 4 )

WIMP search data (partial) WIMP cross section limit

astro-ph/0503265

Ed l i II

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Edelweiss-II

• 100-detector cryostat being

installed at Frejus• Phase 1 detectors: 21 x 320-g NTD detectors ready

7 x 400-g NbSI detectors -expected end of 2005

• metal-insulator transition -additional fast component for surface event discrimination

CRESST II Ph d S i till ti

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CRESST II: Phonons and Scintillation

Results from a 6g CaWO4 prototype

Very small scintillation signal for tungsten recoils

Scaled up to 300g detectors

• Nuclear recoils have much smaller

light yield than electron recoils

• Photon and electron interactions

can be distinguished from nuclear

recoils (WIMPs, neutrons)

Mirror

Particle Thermometer

Thermometer

Light Detector

Phonon Detector

hep-ex/9904005

Phonons (keV)

L i g h t ( k e V e e

)

CRESST II Ph d S i till ti

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CRESST II: Phonons and Scintillation

Results from 20.5 kg-d expoure of two300-g CaWO4 prototypes

# No neutron shielding# Observe low-yield events

consistent with neutron rates andoxygen cross section & light yield

# Claim no tungsten recoils in lightyield region below oxygen yield

(not distinct from noise)

Astro-ph/0408006

Liquid Noble Detectors

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WIMP

LXe E d

E s

Liquid Noble Detectors

PMTs

-

Time

Primary5 µs/cm

~40 nswidth

~1 µs width

---

B.A.Dolgoshein, V.N. Lebedenko, B.U. Rodionov, JETP Lett. 11 (1970) 513.

Courtesy of T. Shutt

Dual-phase LXe Time

Projection Chamber (TPC)

• Liquid Xe, Ar, Ne Detectors

• Atomic excimer states provide

recoil discrimination Pulse Shape Discrimination Secondary ionization signal

• eg, dual phase

May readily scale to large mass

• Challenges discrimination at low threshold 87Kr, 39Ar backgrounds

• Several programs Zeplin (UK/UCLA) – Xenon

• RESULTS from single phase PSD• Dual phase under construction

XENON (Columbia, Brown, Case, Yale, Florida)

• 10-kg in construction at Gran Sasso DEAP (LANL, Queens) – Argon

CLEAN (Yale, LANL) – Neon

UK Collaboration: Zeplin I

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UK Collaboration: Zeplin I

•Single-phase detector Measure primary scintillation

Pulse shape discrimination

5kg LXe target (3.1kg fid)

3 PMTs

Cu construction

Polycold cryogen cooling

1 tonne Compton veto

Pulse shape

e.r.n.r.

e.r.

gamma+neutron calib.

gammas only

Zeplin I: Best limit on Xenon target

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Zeplin I: Best limit on Xenon target

• 230 kg-days in 3.1-kg fiducial

mass Gamma calibration data from

contemporaneous veto events

Systematics dominated — no insitu neutron calibration

• Trouble recondensing target

Pulse shape

E D E L

W E I S S

2 0 0 2

Z E P L

I N I

D A M A

1 9 9 6

Astroparticle Physics 23 (2005) 444–462

Technology demonstration 10 kg → 100 kg→ Ton scale

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ZEPLIN MAX – 1-Ton

ZEPLIN III

Technology demonstration 10 kg → 100 kg→ Ton scale

PMT

Gas

phaseLiquid

targetZEPLIN II

‘XENON’ Collaboration(Columbia et al)

+DEAP (LAr)

+CLEAN (LNe)+WARP (LAr)

+XMASS (LXe)(UK+UCLA)

Bubble Chamber Revival

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Bubble Chamber Revival

• 2-kg CF3I Bubble Chamber – Chicagogroup (Collar, Sonnenschien, Crisler)

• Tune thermodynamic parameters Insensitive to min. ionizing and low-energy

electron recoils

Stability (time between events) consistentwith laboratory neutron background

Quadruple neutron-scatter event

Installed at 300 mwe depth at FNAL

Galactic origin: Directional signal & DRIFT

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Dan Akerib Case Western Reserve University

Galactic origin: Directional signal & DRIFT

Cathode

Scattered WIMP

Recoil

Atom

Drift

direction

CS2 Recoil

Electron

E-Field

40 keV Ar in 40 torr Ar

y

( m m )

0

4 0

0 → 40x (mm)• Sensitive to direction of recoiling nucleus

Diurnal modulation signal – galactic origin of signal

• Drift negative ions in TPC (J. Martoff, Temple U.) No magnetic field required

Reduced diffusion• Electron recoils rejected via dE/dx

• DRIFT I: Proof of principle

• DRIFT II 1-kg modules

Full demonstration

•Challenge is MASS: how big is needed for ~100 events?

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Summary

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Summary

• Dark matter remains a fundamental mystery Central role in cosmology, but we don’t yet know its nature

Possible solution lies in new fundamental particle physics

• Direct detection of DM Frontier HEP at accelerators

• Explore interesting SUSY region on similar time scale

• Potential to provide key info to ILC

An essential aspect to finding a concordant model:• dark matter in the laboratory ≠ dark matter in the halo!

• measurements needed on both frontiers— particle mass

— particle lifetime

— relic density

Indirect detection: astrophysical signal from annihilation products

• Significant recent advances in sensitivity New technologies have come online

Broad R&D enterprise

Next 5-10 years looks very exciting!

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