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      Constraints on Light WIMPs from SuperCDMS

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          The SuperCDMS experiment searches for weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) using cryogenic germanium detectors that measure ionization and phonon energy. Several direct searches for WIMPs have recently reported excesses of events above their background expectations, which could be interpreted as WIMPs with masses in the 8-20 GeV/c^2 range. The excellent intrinsic signal-to-noise of SuperCDMS detectors and their powerful background rejection make SuperCDMS an ideal experiment to further test these signal hints. We present the results of two recent SuperCDMS analyses targeting this mass range: the first using Luke-Neganov amplification of the ionization signal to lower the effective energy threshold, and the second using multivariate methods to optimize background rejection in a larger 577 kg-d exposure.

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          16 May 2014
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          1405.4210
          7ae96291-8e52-4d3c-b1ae-0949629e11de

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          7 pages, 4 figures, to appear in the proceedings of Rencontres de Moriond Electroweak 2014
          hep-ex physics.ins-det

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