Photo-Neutron Calibration of SuperCDMS Detectors

Abstract

Super Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (SuperCDMS) [1] is a direct dark matter search experiment that makes use of low temperature solid state detectors to search for rare scattering of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) with atomic nuclei. The SuperCDMS Soudan experiment consisted of 15 germanium detectors arranged in five towers of three detectors each with a total mass of 9 kg and an operating temperature of 50 mK.