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Home page for the EDELWEISS-III experiment

The Edelweiss experiment is dedicated to the direct detection of dark matter particles with bolometric detectors located at the underground laboratory of Modane (the LSM). The results of the stage II of this experiment are published, while the third phase is in scientific exploitation. On this Web site you will find the following sections:

Contact: J. Gascon (spokesperson)

"FID" Full InterDigit germanium bolometer The FID bolometers ready at Modane Final installation of the EDELWEISS-III setup

Limit on low-mass WIMPs with EDELWEISS-III, JCAP05 (2016) 019 Limits on the axion coupling to electrons (EDELWEISS-II data)

Summer 2016 - New scientific results from the long EDELWEISS-III physics run

A set of new results were derived from the 2014-2015 EDELWEISS-III physics run, and submitted to journals for publication.

September 2015 - Preliminary results from a long EDELWEISS-III physics run

A long physics run ("Run 308") took place between Summer 2014 and Spring 2015. Preliminary results from a search for low-mass WIMPs were presented at the TAUP conference, using data taken during this run by 8 detectors. The derived limit on the WIMP-nucleon cross-section represents roughly an order-of-magnitude improvment with respect to EDELWEISS-II, for WIMP masses in the 5 to 30 GeV range. It now excludes completely all previous "low-mass WIMP" claims, which confirms results by the SuperCDMS experiment. A publication is in preparation, while further R&D is ongoing to drastically improve the detector sensitivity down to GeV WIMP masses.
Update Spring 2016 : the final result is published in JCAP05 (2016) 019 [arxiv:1603.05120]

Summer 2013 - Axion searches with the EDELWEISS-II experiment (arxiv:1307.1815)

For the first time, the EDELWEISS experiment presents new constraints on the coupling of axions or "ALP" particles. While EDELWEISS is primarily designed to search for WIMP-induced nuclear recoils, it is also sensitive to axion-induced electron recoils, thanks to its high-exposure, low background and good energy resolution. In this publication we used EDELWEISS-II data to place bounds on axion couplings using four different search channels. The main results are :