Improved limits on scattering of weakly interacting massive particles from reanalysis of 2013 LUX data
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Journal Article
Abstract
We present constraints on weakly interacting massive particles (WIMP)-nucleus scattering from the 2013 data of the Large Underground Xenon dark matter experiment, including 1.4×104 kg day of search exposure. This new analysis incorporates several advances: single-photon calibration at the scintillation wavelength, improved event-reconstruction algorithms, a revised background model including events originating on the detector walls in an enlarged fiducial volume, and new calibrations from decays of an injected tritium β source and from kinematically constrained nuclear recoils down to 1.1 keV. Sensitivity, especially to low-mass WIMPs, is enhanced compared to our previous results which modeled the signal only above a 3 keV minimum energy. Under standard dark matter halo assumptions and in the mass range above 4 GeV c−2, these new results give the most stringent direct limits on the spin-independent WIMP-nucleon cross section. The 90% C.L. upper limit has a minimum of 0.6 zb at 33 GeV c−2 WIMP mass.
Date Issued
2016-04-22
Date Acceptance
2016-04-01
Citation
Physical Review Letters, 2016, 116 (16), pp.1-7
ISSN
1079-7114
Publisher
American Physical Society
Start Page
1
End Page
7
Journal / Book Title
Physical Review Letters
Volume
116
Issue
16
Copyright Statement
© 2016 American Physical Society
Sponsor
Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
The Royal Society
Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
Grant Number
ST/K001604/1
ST/K006428/1 DMUK
IE120804
ST/K003208/1 DMUK
ST/N000242/1
Subjects
Science & Technology
Physical Sciences
Physics, Multidisciplinary
Physics
DARK-MATTER
LIQUID ARGON
SCINTILLATION
XENON
ENERGY
LUX Collaboration
astro-ph.CO
astro-ph.CO
astro-ph.IM
hep-ex
physics.ins-det
01 Mathematical Sciences
02 Physical Sciences
09 Engineering
General Physics
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
ARTN 161301
Date Publish Online
2020-04-20