Improved EDELWEISS-III sensitivity for low-mass WIMPs using a profile likelihood approach

EDELWEISS Collaboration, L. Hehn, E. Armengaud +46

We report on a dark matter search for a Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP) in the mass range $m_{\chi }\in [4,30]\mathrm{GeV}/c^2$ with the EDELWEISS-III experiment. A 2D prof…