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Light Dark Matter Search with Ionization Signals in XENON1T.

Authors :
Aprile E
Aalbers J
Agostini F
Alfonsi M
Althueser L
Amaro FD
Antochi VC
Angelino E
Arneodo F
Barge D
Baudis L
Bauermeister B
Bellagamba L
Benabderrahmane ML
Berger T
Breur PA
Brown A
Brown E
Bruenner S
Bruno G
Budnik R
Capelli C
Cardoso JMR
Cichon D
Coderre D
Colijn AP
Conrad J
Cussonneau JP
Decowski MP
de Perio P
Depoian A
Di Gangi P
Di Giovanni A
Diglio S
Elykov A
Eurin G
Fei J
Ferella AD
Fieguth A
Fulgione W
Gaemers P
Gallo Rosso A
Galloway M
Gao F
Garbini M
Grandi L
Greene Z
Hasterok C
Hils C
Hogenbirk E
Howlett J
Iacovacci M
Itay R
Joerg F
Kazama S
Kish A
Kobayashi M
Koltman G
Kopec A
Landsman H
Lang RF
Levinson L
Lin Q
Lindemann S
Lindner M
Lombardi F
Lopes JAM
López Fune E
Macolino C
Mahlstedt J
Manfredini A
Marignetti F
Marrodán Undagoitia T
Masbou J
Mastroianni S
Messina M
Micheneau K
Miller K
Molinario A
Morå K
Mosbacher Y
Murra M
Naganoma J
Ni K
Oberlack U
Odgers K
Palacio J
Pelssers B
Peres R
Pienaar J
Pizzella V
Plante G
Podviianiuk R
Qin J
Qiu H
Ramírez García D
Reichard S
Riedel B
Rocchetti A
Rupp N
Dos Santos JMF
Sartorelli G
Šarčević N
Scheibelhut M
Schindler S
Schreiner J
Schulte D
Schumann M
Scotto Lavina L
Selvi M
Shagin P
Shockley E
Silva M
Simgen H
Therreau C
Thers D
Toschi F
Trinchero G
Tunnell C
Upole N
Vargas M
Volta G
Wack O
Wang H
Wei Y
Weinheimer C
Wenz D
Wittweg C
Wulf J
Ye J
Zhang Y
Zhu T
Zopounidis JP
Source :
Physical review letters [Phys Rev Lett] 2019 Dec 20; Vol. 123 (25), pp. 251801.
Publication Year :
2019

Abstract

We report constraints on light dark matter (DM) models using ionization signals in the XENON1T experiment. We mitigate backgrounds with strong event selections, rather than requiring a scintillation signal, leaving an effective exposure of (22±3) tonne day. Above ∼0.4  keV_{ee}, we observe <1  event/(tonne day keV_{ee}), which is more than 1000 times lower than in similar searches with other detectors. Despite observing a higher rate at lower energies, no DM or CEvNS detection may be claimed because we cannot model all of our backgrounds. We thus exclude new regions in the parameter spaces for DM-nucleus scattering for DM masses m_{χ} within 3-6  GeV/c^{2}, DM-electron scattering for m_{χ}>30  MeV/c^{2}, and absorption of dark photons and axionlike particles for m_{χ} within 0.186-1  keV/c^{2}.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
1079-7114
Volume :
123
Issue :
25
Database :
MEDLINE
Journal :
Physical review letters
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
31922764
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.251801