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Posted on: December 17, 2009 5:46 PM, by Steinn Sigurðsson
JoAnne and Risa are liveblogging the CDMS seminar at Stanford
bottom line, they see two events when they unblind, compared to expected 0.5
net confidence is a bit over 2σ (nailed it, yeah!).
interesting bounds on cross-section for WIMPs with mass under 70 GeV/c2
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What is a valid approximation for the number of theory papers that will be written about this? I'm guessing that the number of papers goes like N^p * N_theorists, where N is the number of detected events, p is some power (2?), and N_theorists is the number of theorists in the field. Unfortunately this seems to be a terrible fit to the data for small N (
Maybe an exponential would be better?
Posted by: Ryano | December 18, 2009 7:57 AM
ha, they were probably monopoles!
i can't wait until they expand the experiment and up the detections!
Posted by: rob | December 18, 2009 2:56 PM