Exotic Dark Matter Search with the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR

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作者
Arnquist, I. J. [1 ]
Avignone, F. T. [2 ,3 ,7 ,8 ]
Barabash, A. S. [4 ]
Barton, C. J. [5 ,27 ,28 ]
Bhimani, K. H. [6 ,7 ]
Blalock, E.
Bos, B. [6 ,7 ]
Busch, M. [7 ,9 ]
Buuck, M. [10 ,11 ]
Caldwell, T. S. [6 ]
Chan, Y-D. [12 ]
Christofferson, C. D. [13 ]
Chu, P. -h. [14 ]
Clark, M. L. [6 ,7 ]
Cuesta, C. [15 ]
Detwiler, J. A. [10 ,11 ]
Efremenko, Yu. [3 ,16 ]
Ejiri, H. [17 ]
Elliott, S. R. [14 ]
Giovanetti, G. K. [18 ]
Green, M. P. [3 ,7 ,8 ]
Gruszko, J. [6 ,7 ]
Guinn, I. S.
Guiseppe, V. E. [3 ]
Haufe, C. R. [6 ,7 ]
Henning, R. [6 ]
Aguilar, D. Hervas
Hoppe, E. W.
Hostiuc, A. [10 ,11 ]
Kidd, M. F. [19 ]
Kim, I. [14 ,29 ]
Kouzes, R. T. [1 ]
Lannen, V. T. E. [2 ]
Li, A. [6 ,7 ,30 ]
Lopez, A. M. [16 ]
Lopez-Castano, J. M. [3 ]
Martin, E. L. [6 ,7 ,31 ,32 ]
Martin, R. D. [20 ]
Massarczyk, R. [14 ]
Meijer, S. J. [14 ]
Mertens, S. [21 ,22 ,23 ]
Oli, T. K. [5 ]
Othman, G. [6 ,7 ,33 ]
Paudel, L. S. [3 ,5 ]
Pettus, W. [24 ,25 ]
Poon, A. W. P. [12 ]
Radford, D. C. [3 ,14 ]
Rager, J. [6 ,34 ]
Reine, A. L. [6 ,7 ]
Rielage, K. [14 ]
机构
[1] Pacific Northwest Natl Lab, Richland, WA 99354 USA
[2] Univ South Carolina, Dept Phys & Astron, Columbia, SC 29208 USA
[3] Oak Ridge Natl Lab, Oak Ridge, TN 37830 USA
[4] Kurchatov Inst, Inst Theoret & Expt Phys, Natl Res Ctr, Moscow 117218, Russia
[5] Univ South Dakota, Dept Phys, Vermillion, SD 57069 USA
[6] Univ N Carolina, Dept Phys & Astron, Chapel Hill, NC 27514 USA
[7] Triangle Univ Nucl Lab, Durham, NC 27708 USA
[8] North Carolina State Univ, Dept Phys, Raleigh, NC 27695 USA
[9] Duke Univ, Dept Phys, Durham, NC 27708 USA
[10] Univ Washington, Ctr Expt Nucl Phys & Astrophys, Seattle, WA 98195 USA
[11] Univ Washington, Dept Phys, Seattle, WA 98195 USA
[12] Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab, Nucl Sci Div, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[13] South Dakota Mines, Rapid City, SD 57701 USA
[14] Los Alamos Natl Lab, Los Alamos, NM 87545 USA
[15] Ctr Invest Energet Medioambientales & Tecnol, CIEMAT, Madrid 28040, Spain
[16] Univ Tennessee, Dept Phys & Astron, Knoxville, TN 37916 USA
[17] Osaka Univ, Res Ctr Nucl Phys, Osaka, Ibaraki 5670047, Japan
[18] Williams Coll, Phys Dept, Williamstown, MA 01267 USA
[19] Tennessee Technol Univ, Cookeville, TN 38505 USA
[20] Queens Univ, Dept Phys Engn Phys & Astron, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada
[21] Max Planck Inst Phys & Astrophys, D-80805 Munich, Germany
[22] Tech Univ, Phys Dept, D-85748 Munich, Germany
[23] Tech Univ, Excellence Cluster Universe, D-85748 Munich, Germany
[24] Indiana Univ, IU Ctr Explorat Energy & Matter, Bloomington, IN 47405 USA
[25] Indiana Univ, Dept Phys, Bloomington, IN 47405 USA
[26] Joint Inst Nucl Res, Dubna 141980, Russia
[27] Roma Tre Univ, Rome, Italy
[28] INFN Roma Tre, Rome, Italy
[29] Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab, Livermore, CA 94550 USA
[30] Univ Calif San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093 USA
[31] Duke Univ, Durham, NC 27708 USA
[32] Argonne Natl Lab, Lemont, IL 60439 USA
[33] Univ Hamburg, Inst Expt Phys, Hamburg, Germany
[34] DEVCOM Army Res Lab Armed Forces, US Army, Adelphi, MD 20783 USA
[35] CALTECH, Jet Prop Lab, Pasadena, CA 91109 USA
基金
加拿大创新基金会; 加拿大自然科学与工程研究理事会; 美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
GERMANIUM;
D O I
10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.041001
中图分类号
O4 [物理学];
学科分类号
0702 ;
摘要
With excellent energy resolution and ultralow-level radiogenic backgrounds, the high-purity germanium detectors in the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR enable searches for several classes of exotic dark matter (DM) models. In this work, we report new experimental limits on keV-scale sterile neutrino DM via the transition magnetic moment from conversion to active neutrinos vs -> va. We report new limits on fermionic dark matter absorption (x +A -> v+ A) and sub-GeV DM-nucleus 3 -> 2 scattering (x + x + A -> phi + A), and new exclusion limits for bosonic dark matter (axionlike particles and dark photons). These searches utilize the (1-100)-keV low-energy region of a 37.5 -kg y exposure collected by the DEMONSTRATOR between May 2016 and November 2019 using a set of 76Ge-enriched detectors whose surface exposure time was carefully controlled, resulting in extremely low levels of cosmogenic activation.
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