Exclusion of leptophilic dark matter models using XENON100 electronic recoil data

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作者
Aprile, E. [1 ]
Agostini, F. [2 ,3 ,4 ,5 ]
Alfonsi, M. [6 ,7 ]
Arazi, L. [8 ]
Arisaka, K. [9 ]
Arneodo, F. [10 ]
Auger, M. [11 ]
Balan, C. [12 ]
Barrow, P. [11 ]
Baudis, L. [11 ]
Bauermeister, B. [13 ]
Behrens, A. [11 ]
Brown, A. [14 ]
Brown, E. [15 ]
Bruenner, S. [16 ]
Bruno, G. [17 ]
Budnik, R. [8 ]
Butikofer, L. [18 ]
Cardoso, J. M. R. [12 ]
Cervantes, M. [14 ,15 ]
Coderre, D. [18 ]
Colijn, A. P. [7 ]
Contreras, H.
Cussonneau, J. P. [19 ]
Decowski, M. P. [6 ,7 ]
Di Giovanni, A. [10 ]
Duchovni, E.
Fattori, S. [13 ]
Ferella, A. D. [2 ,3 ]
Fieguth, A.
Fulgione, W. [3 ]
Gao, F. [20 ]
Garbini, M. [4 ]
Geis, C. [13 ]
Goetzke, L. W. [1 ]
Grignon, C. [13 ]
Gross, E. [8 ]
Hampel, W. [16 ]
Italy, R. [8 ]
Kaether, F. [16 ]
Kaminsky, B. [18 ]
Kessler, G. [11 ]
Kish, A. [11 ]
Landsman, H. [8 ]
Lang, R. F. [14 ,15 ]
Le Calloch, M. [8 ,19 ]
Lellouch, D.
Levinson, L. [8 ]
Levy, C.
Lindemann, S.
机构
[1] Columbia Univ, Dept Phys, New York, NY USA
[2] INFN, Lab Nazl Gran Sasso, Laquila, Italy
[3] Gran Sasso Sci Inst, Laquila, Italy
[4] Univ Bologna, Dept Phys & Astron, Bologna, Italy
[5] INFN Bologna, Bologna, Italy
[6] Nikhef, Amsterdam, Netherlands
[7] Univ Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
[8] Weizmann Inst Sci, Dept Particle Phys & Astrophys, Rehovot, Israel
[9] Univ Calif Los Angeles, Phys & Aston Dept, Los Angeles, CA USA
[10] New York Univ Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, U Arab Emirates
[11] Univ Zurich, Phys Inst, Zurich, Switzerland
[12] Univ Coimbra, Dept Phys, Coimbra, Portugal
[13] Johannes Gutenberg Univ Mainz, Inst Phys & Exzellenzcluster PRISMA, Mainz, Germany
[14] Purdue Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, W Lafayette, IN USA
[15] Rensselaer Polytech Inst, Dept Phys Appl Phys & Astron, Troy, NY USA
[16] Max Planck Inst Kernphys, Heidelberg, Germany
[17] Wilhelms Univ Munster, Inst Kerphys, Munster, Germany
[18] Univ Bern, Albert Einstein Ctr Fundamental Phys, Bern, Switzerland
[19] Univ Nantes, CNRS, In2p3, Ecole Mines Nantes,SUBATECH, Nantes, France
[20] Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, Shanghai, Peoples R China
[21] INFN Torino, Turin, Italy
[22] Osservatorio Astrofis Torino, Turin, Italy
[23] Rice Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, Houston, TX USA
[24] Coimbra Engn Inst, Coimbra, Portugal
[25] Univ Valencia, CSIC, IFIC, Valencia, Spain
基金
美国国家科学基金会; 瑞士国家科学基金会; 中国国家自然科学基金;
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10.1126/science.aab2069
中图分类号
O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
学科分类号
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
Laboratory experiments searching for galactic dark matter particles scattering off nuclei have so far not been able to establish a discovery. We use data from the XENON100 experiment to search for dark matter interacting with electrons. With no evidence for a signal above the low background of our experiment, we exclude a variety of representative dark matter models that would induce electronic recoils. For axial-vector couplings to electrons, we exclude cross sections above 6 x 10(-35) cm(2) for particle masses of m(chi) = 2 GeV/c(2). Independent of the dark matter halo, we exclude leptophilic models as an explanation for the long-standing DAMA/LIBRA signal, such as couplings to electrons through axial-vector interactions at a 4.4 sigma confidence level, mirror dark matter at 3.6 sigma, and luminous dark matter at 4.6 sigma.
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页码:851 / 854
页数:4
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