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Results on the Spin-Dependent Scattering of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles on Nucleons from the Run 3 Data of the LUX Experiment
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Akerib, DS; Araújo, HM; Bai, X; Bailey, AJ; Balajthy, J; Beltrame, P; Bernard, EP; Bernstein, A; Biesiadzinski, TP; Boulton, EM; Bradley, A; Bramante, R; Cahn, SB; Carmona-Benitez, MC; Chan, C; Chapman, JJ; Chiller, AA; Chiller, C; Currie, A; Cutter, JE; Davison, TJR; de Viveiros, L; Dobi, A; Dobson, JEY; Druszkiewicz, E; Edwards, BN; Faham, CH; Fiorucci, S; Gaitskell, RJ; Gehman, VM; Ghag, C; Gibson, KR; Gilchriese, MGD; Hall, CR; Hanhardt, M; Haselschwardt, SJ; Hertel, SA; Hogan, DP; Horn, M; Huang, DQ; Ignarra, CM; Ihm, M; Jacobsen, RG; Ji, W; Kazkaz, K; Khaitan, D; Knoche, R; Larsen, NA; Lee, C; Lenardo, BG; Lesko, KT; Lindote, A; Lopes, MI; Malling, DC; Manalaysay, A; Mannino, RL; Marzioni, MF; McKinsey, DN; Mei, D-M; Mock, J; Moongweluwan, M; Morad, JA; Murphy, A St J; Nehrkorn, C; Nelson, HN; Neves, F; O'Sullivan, K; Oliver-Mallory, KC; Ott, RA; Palladino, KJ; Pangilinan, M; Pease, EK; Phelps, P; Reichhart, L; Rhyne, C; Shaw, S; Shutt, TA; Silva, C; Solovov, VN; Sorensen, P; Stephenson, S; Sumner, TJ; Szydagis, M; Taylor, DJ; Taylor, W; Tennyson, BP; Terman, PA; Tiedt, DR; To, WH; Tripathi, M; Tvrznikova, L; Uvarov, S; Verbus, JR; Webb, RC; White, JT; Whitis, TJ; Witherell, MS; Wolfs, FLH; Yazdani, K; Young, SK
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Physical Review Letters. 116(16)
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Abstract
We present experimental constraints on the spin-dependent WIMP (weakly interacting massive particle)-nucleon elastic cross sections from LUX data acquired in 2013. LUX is a dual-phase xenon time projection chamber operating at the Sanford Underground Research Facility (Lead, South Dakota), which is designed to observe the recoil signature of galactic WIMPs scattering from xenon nuclei. A profile likelihood ratio analysis of 1.4×10^{4} kg day of fiducial exposure allows 90% C.L. upper limits to be set on the WIMP-neutron (WIMP-proton) cross section of σ_{n}=9.4×10^{-41} cm^{2} (σ_{p}=2.9×10^{-39} cm^{2}) at 33 GeV/c^{2}. The spin-dependent WIMP-neutron limit is the most sensitive constraint to date.