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To search for cold dark matter (CDM) particles, the data from two (Ge-76 and Ge-natural) detectors, fabricated in the first phase of the IGEX collaboration, were accumulated and analyzed for a period from May 1995 to May 1999. The use of effective passive and active shielding together with pulse shape discrimination allowed us to perform long-term measurements with an energy threshold of 2 keV at a level of the residual background 0.1 counts/(kg keV d). New restrictions on masses of weakly interacting massive particles and the cross section of their elastic scattering on nuclei have been obtained from the data corresponding to 810 d of live time. The derived exclusion plots compete with the best bounds obtained so far. Annual modulations of the CDM signal have been also investigated. It is shown that the planned operation of all IGEX detectors (at Canfranc and Baksan) with the recently achieved low-energy thresholds gives a chance to achieve the DAMA annual modulation sensitivity region in a nearest future.
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From Yadernaya Fizika, Vol. 63, No. 7, 2000, pp. 1341–1344.
Original English Text Copyright © 2000 by Aalseth, Avignone III, Brodzinski, Cebrian, Gonzáles, García, Hensley, Irastorza, Kirpichnikov, Klimenko, Miley, A. Morales, J. Morales, Órtiz de Solórzano, Osetrov, Pogosov, Puimedón, Reeves, Sarsa, Scopel, Smolnikov, Starostin, Tamanyan, Vasenko, Vasiliev, Villar.
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Aalseth, C.E., Avignone, F.T., Brodzinski, R.L. et al. New results of the WIMP search with the first IGEX Ge detectors. Phys. Atom. Nuclei 63, 1268–1271 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.855781
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