Search for exclusive or semi-exclusive photon pair production and observation of exclusive and semi-exclusive electron pair production in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV

ArXiv 1209.1666 (2012)

Search for low-mass WIMPs with EDELWEISS-II heat-and-ionization detectors

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 86:5 (2012)

Authors:

E Armengaud, C Augier, A Benoît, L Bergé, T Bergmann, J Blümer, A Broniatowski, V Brudanin, B Censier, M Chapellier, F Charlieux, F Couëdo, P Coulter, GA Cox, J Domange, AA Drillien, L Dumoulin, K Eitel, D Filosofov, N Fourches, J Gascon, G Gerbier, J Gironnet, M Gros, S Henry, G Heuermann, S Hervé, A Juillard, M Kleifges, H Kluck, V Kozlov, H Kraus, VA Kudryavtsev, H Le Sueur, P Loaiza, S Marnieros, A Menshikov, XF Navick, C Nones, E Olivieri, P Pari, B Paul, M Robinson, S Rozov, V Sanglard, B Schmidt, B Siebenborn, D Tcherniakhovski, AS Torrento-Coello, L Vagneron, RJ Walker, M Weber, E Yakushev, X Zhang

Abstract:

We report on a search for low-energy (E<20keV) WIMP-induced nuclear recoils using data collected in 2009-2010 by EDELWEISS from four germanium detectors equipped with thermal sensors and an electrode design (ID) which allows to efficiently reject several sources of background. The data indicate no evidence for an exponential distribution of low-energy nuclear recoils that could be attributed to WIMP elastic scattering after an exposure of 113kg•d. For weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) of mass 10 GeV, the observation of one event in the WIMP search region results in a 90% C.L. limit of 1.0×10 -5pb on the spin-independent WIMP-nucleon scattering cross-section, which constrains the parameter space associated with the findings reported by the CoGeNT, DAMA and CRESST experiments. © 2012 American Physical Society.

Combined search for the quarks of a sequential fourth generation

ArXiv 1209.1062 (2012)

Search for diphoton events with large missing transverse momentum in 7 TeV proton-proton collision data with the ATLAS detector

ArXiv 1209.0753 (2012)

Search for pair produced fourth-generation up-type quarks in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV with a lepton in the final state

ArXiv 1209.0471 (2012)