CDMS and SuperCDMS

The CDMS experiment has operated cryogenic Ge and Si detectors for several years in a well shielded underground environment searching for signals from Weakly Interacting Massive dark matter Particles (WIMPs). Due to the low background and excellent background discrimination power, CDMS has provided the best sensitivity for WIMP-nucleon interactions for most of the past decade. New detectors with larger mass and further improved background discrimination, developed for the successor experiment SuperCDMS, have recently been deployed; WIMP search measurements are foreseen to resume before the end of 2011. In this paper we discuss the results from CDMS - in particular the constraints on low mass WIMPs recently proposed to explain results from other dark matter experiments - and present the status of and plans for SuperCDMS.