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Search for dark matter in the form of hidden photons and axion-like particles in the XMASS detector
- Source :
- Physics Letters, Physics Letters B, Vol 787, Iss, Pp 153-158 (2018)
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2018.
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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
- Subjects :
- Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Cold dark matter
Photon
Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors
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Dark matter
FOS: Physical sciences
chemistry.chemical_element
01 natural sciences
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Nuclear physics
High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
Xenon
0103 physical sciences
Axion-like particle
010306 general physics
Axion
Low background
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Boson
Physics
Range (particle radiation)
010308 nuclear & particles physics
Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
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Universe
chemistry
Hidden photon
Liquid xenon
lcsh:Physics
Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Subjects
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