학술논문
Searching for Heavy Dark Matter near the Planck Mass with XENON1T
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Working Paper
Author
Aprile, E.; Abe, K.; Maouloud, S. Ahmed; Althueser, L.; Andrieu, B.; Angelino, E.; Angevaare, J. R.; Antochi, V. C.; Martin, D. Antón; Arneodo, F.; Baudis, L.; Baxter, A. L.; Bazyk, M.; Bellagamba, L.; Biondi, R.; Bismark, A.; Brookes, E. J.; Brown, A.; Bruenner, S.; Bruno, G.; Budnik, R.; Bui, T. K.; Cai, C.; Cardoso, J. M. R.; Cichon, D.; Chavez, A. P. Cimental; Clark, M.; Colijn, A. P.; Conrad, J.; Cuenca-García, J. J.; Cussonneau, J. P.; D'Andrea, V.; Decowski, M. P.; Di Gangi, P.; Di Pede, S.; Diglio, S.; Eitel, K.; Elykov, A.; Farrell, S.; Ferella, A. D.; Ferrari, C.; Fischer, H.; Flierman, M.; Fulgione, W.; Fuselli, C.; Gaemers, P.; Gaior, R.; Rosso, A. Gallo; Galloway, M.; Gao, F.; Glade-Beucke, R.; Grandi, L.; Grigat, J.; Guan, H.; Guida, M.; Hammann, R.; Higuera, A.; Hils, C.; Hoetzsch, L.; Hood, N. F.; Howlett, J.; Iacovacci, M.; Itow, Y.; Jakob, J.; Joerg, F.; Joy, A.; Kato, N.; Kara, M.; Kavrigin, P.; Kazama, S.; Kobayashi, M.; Koltman, G.; Kopec, A.; Kuger, F.; Landsman, H.; Lang, R. F.; Levinson, L.; Li, I.; Li, S.; Liang, S.; Lindemann, S.; Lindner, M.; Liu, K.; Loizeau, J.; Lombardi, F.; Long, J.; Lopes, J. A. M.; Ma, Y.; Macolino, C.; Mahlstedt, J.; Mancuso, A.; Manenti, L.; Marignetti, F.; Undagoitia, T. Marrodán; Martens, K.; Masbou, J.; Masson, D.; Masson, E.; Mastroianni, S.; Messina, M.; Miuchi, K.; Mizukoshi, K.; Molinario, A.; Moriyama, S.; Morå, K.; Mosbacher, Y.; Murra, M.; Müller, J.; Ni, K.; Oberlack, U.; Paetsch, B.; Palacio, J.; Pellegrini, Q.; Peres, R.; Peters, C.; Pienaar, J.; Pierre, M.; Pizzella, V.; Plante, G.; Pollmann, T. R.; Qi, J.; Qin, J.; García, D. Ramírez; Singh, R.; Sanchez, L.; Santos, J. M. F. dos; Sarnoff, I.; Sartorelli, G.; Schreiner, J.; Schulte, D.; Schulte, P.; Eißing, H. Schulze; Schumann, M.; Lavina, L. Scotto; Selvi, M.; Semeria, F.; Shagin, P.; Shi, S.; Shockley, E.; Silva, M.; Simgen, H.; Takeda, A.; Tan, P. -L.; Terliuk, A.; Thers, D.; Toschi, F.; Trinchero, G.; Tunnell, C.; Tönnies, F.; Valerius, K.; Volta, G.; Weinheimer, C.; Weiss, M.; Wenz, D.; Wittweg, C.; Wolf, T.; Wu, V. H. S.; Xing, Y.; Xu, D.; Xu, Z.; Yamashita, M.; Yang, L.; Ye, J.; Yuan, L.; Zavattini, G.; Zhong, M.; Zhu, T.
Source
Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 261002 (2023)
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Abstract
Multiple viable theoretical models predict heavy dark matter particles with a mass close to the Planck mass, a range relatively unexplored by current experimental measurements. We use 219.4 days of data collected with the XENON1T experiment to conduct a blind search for signals from Multiply-Interacting Massive Particles (MIMPs). Their unique track signature allows a targeted analysis with only 0.05 expected background events from muons. Following unblinding, we observe no signal candidate events. This work places strong constraints on spin-independent interactions of dark matter particles with a mass between 1$\times$10$^{12}\,$GeV/c$^2$ and 2$\times$10$^{17}\,$GeV/c$^2$. In addition, we present the first exclusion limits on spin-dependent MIMP-neutron and MIMP-proton cross-sections for dark matter particles with masses close to the Planck scale.
Comment: 7 pages, 6 figures
Comment: 7 pages, 6 figures