Limits on cold dark matter candidates from an ultralow background germanium spectrometer

S. P. Ahlen; F. T. Avignone; R. L. Brodzinski; A. K. Drukier; G. Gelmini; D. N. Spergel

doi:10.1016/0370-2693(87)91581-4

Limits on cold dark matter candidates from an ultralow background germanium spectrometer

S. P. Ahlen
, F. T. Avignone
, R. L. Brodzinski
, A. K. Drukier
, G. Gelmini
, D. N. Spergel

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An ultralow background spectrometer is used as a detector of cold dark matter candidates from the halo of our galaxy. Using a realistic model for the galactic halo, large regions of the mass-cross section space are excluded for important halo component particles. In particular, a halo dominated by heavy standard Dirac neutrinos (taken as an example of particles with spin-independent Z⁰ exchange interactions) with masses between 20 GeV and 1 TeV is excluded. The local density of heavy standard Dirac neutrinos is <0.4 GeV/cm³ for masses between 17.5 GeV and 2.5 TeV, at the 68% confidence level.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	603-608
Number of pages	6
Journal	Physics Letters B
Volume	195
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0370-2693(87)91581-4
State	Published - Sep 17 1987

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