1. Constraints on Covariant Dark-Matter-Nucleon Effective Field Theory Interactions from the First Science Run of the LUX-ZEPLIN Experiment.
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Aalbers J, Akerib DS, Al Musalhi AK, Alder F, Amarasinghe CS, Ames A, Anderson TJ, Angelides N, Araújo HM, Armstrong JE, Arthurs M, Baker A, Balashov S, Bang J, Barillier EE, Bargemann JW, Beattie K, Benson T, Bhatti A, Biekert A, Biesiadzinski TP, Birch HJ, Bishop EJ, Blockinger GM, Boxer B, Brew CAJ, Brás P, Burdin S, Buuck M, Carmona-Benitez MC, Carter M, Chawla A, Chen H, Cherwinka JJ, Chin YT, Chott NI, Converse MV, Cottle A, Cox G, Curran D, Dahl CE, David A, Delgaudio J, Dey S, de Viveiros L, Di Felice L, Ding C, Dobson JEY, Druszkiewicz E, Eriksen SR, Fan A, Fearon NM, Fiorucci S, Flaecher H, Fraser ED, Fruth TMA, Gaitskell RJ, Geffre A, Genovesi J, Ghag C, Gibbons R, Gokhale S, Green J, van der Grinten MGD, Haiston JJ, Hall CR, Han S, Hartigan-O'Connor E, Haselschwardt SJ, Hernandez MA, Hertel SA, Heuermann G, Homenides GJ, Horn M, Huang DQ, Hunt D, Jacquet E, James RS, Johnson J, Kaboth AC, Kamaha AC, Kannichankandy M, Khaitan D, Khazov A, Khurana I, Kim JD, Kim J, Kingston J, Kirk R, Kodroff D, Korley L, Korolkova EV, Kraus H, Kravitz S, Kreczko L, Kudryavtsev VA, Leonard DS, Lesko KT, Levy C, Lin J, Lindote A, Linehan R, Lippincott WH, Lopes MI, Lorenzon W, Lu C, Luitz S, Majewski PA, Manalaysay A, Mannino RL, Maupin C, McCarthy ME, McDowell G, McKinsey DN, McLaughlin J, McLaughlin JB, McMonigle R, Miller EH, Mizrachi E, Monte A, Monzani ME, Morales Mendoza JD, Morrison E, Mount BJ, Murdy M, Murphy ASJ, Naylor A, Nelson HN, Neves F, Nguyen A, Nikoleyczik JA, Olcina I, Oliver-Mallory KC, Orpwood J, Palladino KJ, Palmer J, Pannifer NJ, Parveen N, Patton SJ, Penning B, Pereira G, Perry E, Pershing T, Piepke A, Qie Y, Reichenbacher J, Rhyne CA, Riffard Q, Rischbieter GRC, Riyat HS, Rosero R, Rushton T, Rynders D, Santone D, Sazzad ABMR, Schnee RW, Shaw S, Shutt T, Silk JJ, Silva C, Sinev G, Siniscalco J, Smith R, Solovov VN, Sorensen P, Soria J, Stancu I, Stevens A, Stifter K, Suerfu B, Sumner TJ, Szydagis M, Taylor WC, Tiedt DR, Timalsina M, Tong Z, Tovey DR, Tranter J, Trask M, Tripathi M, Tronstad DR, Vacheret A, Vaitkus AC, Valentino O, Velan V, Wang A, Wang JJ, Wang Y, Watson JR, Webb RC, Weeldreyer L, Whitis TJ, Williams M, Wisniewski WJ, Wolfs FLH, Woodford S, Woodward D, Wright CJ, Xia Q, Xiang X, Xu J, Yeh M, and Zweig EA
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The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment is a dual-phase xenon time project chamber operating in the Sanford Underground Research Facility in South Dakota, USA. We report on the results of a relativistic extension to the nonrelativistic effective field theory (NREFT) from a 5.5 t fiducial mass and 60 live days of exposure. We present constraints on couplings from covariant interactions arising from the coupling of vector, axial currents, and electric dipole moments of the nucleon to the magnetic and electric dipole moments of the weakly interacting massive particle which cannot be described by recasting previous results described by an NREFT. Using a profile-likelihood ratio analysis, in an energy region between 0 keV_{nr} to 270 keV_{nr}, we report 90% confidence level exclusion limits on the coupling strength of five interactions in both the isoscalar and isovector bases.
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- 2024
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