J. Barreto, H. Cease, H. T. Diehl, J. Estrada, B. Flaugher, N. Harrison, J. Jones, B. Kilminster, J. Molina, J. Smith, T. Schwarz, A. Sonnenschein
A direct dark matter search is performed using fully-depleted high-resistivity CCD detectors . Due to their low electronic readout noise (RMS ~ 7 eV) these devices operate with a very low detection threshold of 40 eV, making the search for dark matter particles with low masses (~ 5 GeV) possible. The results of an engineering run performed in a shallow underground site are presented, demonstrating the potential of this technology in the low mass region.
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http://arxiv.org/abs/1105.5191
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