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Results from a Search for Dark Matter in the Complete LUX Exposure.

Authors :
Akerib DS
Alsum S
Araújo HM
Bai X
Bailey AJ
Balajthy J
Beltrame P
Bernard EP
Bernstein A
Biesiadzinski TP
Boulton EM
Bramante R
Brás P
Byram D
Cahn SB
Carmona-Benitez MC
Chan C
Chiller AA
Chiller C
Currie A
Cutter JE
Davison TJ
Dobi A
Dobson JE
Druszkiewicz E
Edwards BN
Faham CH
Fiorucci S
Gaitskell RJ
Gehman VM
Ghag C
Gibson KR
Gilchriese MG
Hall CR
Hanhardt M
Haselschwardt SJ
Hertel SA
Hogan DP
Horn M
Huang DQ
Ignarra CM
Ihm M
Jacobsen RG
Ji W
Kamdin K
Kazkaz K
Khaitan D
Knoche R
Larsen NA
Lee C
Lenardo BG
Lesko KT
Lindote A
Lopes MI
Manalaysay A
Mannino RL
Marzioni MF
McKinsey DN
Mei DM
Mock J
Moongweluwan M
Morad JA
Murphy AS
Nehrkorn C
Nelson HN
Neves F
O'Sullivan K
Oliver-Mallory KC
Palladino KJ
Pease EK
Phelps P
Reichhart L
Rhyne C
Shaw S
Shutt TA
Silva C
Solmaz M
Solovov VN
Sorensen P
Stephenson S
Sumner TJ
Szydagis M
Taylor DJ
Taylor WC
Tennyson BP
Terman PA
Tiedt DR
To WH
Tripathi M
Tvrznikova L
Uvarov S
Verbus JR
Webb RC
White JT
Whitis TJ
Witherell MS
Wolfs FL
Xu J
Yazdani K
Young SK
Zhang C
Source :
Physical review letters [Phys Rev Lett] 2017 Jan 13; Vol. 118 (2), pp. 021303. Date of Electronic Publication: 2017 Jan 11.
Publication Year :
2017

Abstract

We report constraints on spin-independent weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP)-nucleon scattering using a 3.35×10^{4}  kg day exposure of the Large Underground Xenon (LUX) experiment. A dual-phase xenon time projection chamber with 250 kg of active mass is operated at the Sanford Underground Research Facility under Lead, South Dakota (USA). With roughly fourfold improvement in sensitivity for high WIMP masses relative to our previous results, this search yields no evidence of WIMP nuclear recoils. At a WIMP mass of 50  GeV c^{-2}, WIMP-nucleon spin-independent cross sections above 2.2×10^{-46}  cm^{2} are excluded at the 90% confidence level. When combined with the previously reported LUX exposure, this exclusion strengthens to 1.1×10^{-46}  cm^{2} at 50  GeV c^{-2}.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
1079-7114
Volume :
118
Issue :
2
Database :
MEDLINE
Journal :
Physical review letters
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
28128598
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.021303