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Search for dark matter in the form of hidden photons and axion-like particles in the XMASS detector

Authors :
Katsuki Hiraide
Y. D. Kim
Kentaro Miuchi
Shigeki Tasaka
K. Kobayashi
Hiroshi Ogawa
K. Nishijima
Shigetaka Moriyama
Y. Takeuchi
Takatoshi Suzuki
Masayuki Nakahata
K.B. Lee
Yong Hamb Kim
Nam Young Kim
B. S. Yang
M. Kobayashi
Yasuhiro Kishimoto
Masaki Yamashita
B. D. Xu
Kimiaki Masuda
Lee Min-Kie
Yoshitaka Itow
Atsushi Takeda
Hiroyuki Sekiya
Y. Fukuda
O. Takachio
K. Martens
G. Kanzaki
Ken-Ichi Fushimi
Yoshihiro Suzuki
Ko Abe
Koichi Ichimura
K. Kanzawa
M. Miyasaka
Katsuhiko Sato
N. Oka
Shogo Nakamura
Source :
Physics Letters, Physics Letters B, Vol 787, Iss, Pp 153-158 (2018)
Publication Year :
2018
Publisher :
Elsevier BV, 2018.

Abstract

Hidden photons and axion-like particles are candidates for cold dark matter if they were produced non-thermally in the early universe. We conducted a search for both of these bosons using 800 live-days of data from the XMASS detector with 327 kg of liquid xenon in the fiducial volume. No significant signal was observed, and thus we set constraints on the $\alpha' / \alpha$ parameter related to kinetic mixing of hidden photons and the coupling constant $g_{Ae}$ of axion-like particles in the mass range from 40 to 120 keV/$c^2$, resulting in $\alpha' / \alpha < 6 \times 10^{-26}$ and $g_{Ae} < 4 \times 10^{-13}$. These limits are the most stringent derived from both direct and indirect searches to date.<br />Comment: 18 pages, 5 figures

Details

ISSN :
03702693
Volume :
787
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Physics Letters B
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....f3ecc17505bd37a959fd50e67c3e453c
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2018.10.050