wimpy signals

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

good stuff

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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 (<1) and large N (I'm guessing).

Maybe an exponential would be better?

ha, they were probably monopoles!

i can't wait until they expand the experiment and up the detections!