Title: "The Cryogenic Dark Matter Search"

Abstract:

The Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS) is a leader in the field of directly detecting the dark matter wind as terrestrial laboratories pass through the Milky Way's halo. We briefly describe the manifold evidence for non-baryonic cold dark matter which could naturally come in the form of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs). The CDMS search for WIMPs involves using advanced solid state detectors which efficiently separate all known background sources from the expected dark matter signal on an event by event basis. We present limits on the WIMP-nucleon scattering cross-section which show the power of this background free detection technique.