Dark Matter Search Results from a One Ton-Year Exposure of XENON1T

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Authors
  • L. Althueser
  • F.D. Amaro
  • M. Anthony
  • F. Arneodo
  • L. Baudis
  • B. Bauermeister
  • M.L. Benabderrahmane
  • T. Berger
  • P.A. Breur
  • A. Brown
  • A. Brown
  • E. Brown
  • S. Bruenner
  • G. Bruno
  • R. Budnik
  • C. Capelli
  • J.M.R. Cardoso
  • D. Cichon
  • D. Coderre
  • A.P. Colijn
  • J. Conrad
  • J.P. Cussonneau
  • M.P. Decowski
  • P. de Perio
  • P. Di Gangi
  • A. Di Giovanni
  • S. Diglio
  • A. Elykov
  • G. Eurin
  • J. Fei
  • A.D. Ferella
  • A. Fieguth
  • W. Fulgione
  • A. Gallo Rosso
  • M. Galloway
  • F. Gao
  • M. Garbini
  • C. Geis
  • L. Grandi
  • Z. Greene
  • H. Qiu
  • C. Hasterok
  • E. Hogenbirk
  • J. Howlett
  • R. Itay
  • F. Joerg
  • XENON Collaboration
Publication date 14-09-2018
Journal Physical Review Letters
Article number 111302
Volume | Issue number 121 | 11
Number of pages 8
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Institute of Physics (IoP) - Institute for High Energy Physics (IHEF)
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Informatics Institute (IVI)
Abstract

We report on a search for weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) using 278.8 days of data collected with the XENON1T experiment at LNGS. XENON1T utilizes a liquid xenon time projection chamber with a fiducial mass of (1.30±0.01) ton, resulting in a 1.0 ton yr exposure. The energy region of interest, [1.4,10.6] keVee ([4.9,40.9] keVnr), exhibits an ultralow electron recoil background rate of [82-3+5(syst)±3(stat)] events/(ton yr keVee). No significant excess over background is found, and a profile likelihood analysis parametrized in spatial and energy dimensions excludes new parameter space for the WIMP-nucleon spin-independent elastic scatter cross section for WIMP masses above 6 GeV/c2, with a minimum of 4.1×10-47 cm2 at 30 GeV/c2 and a 90% confidence level.

Document type Article
Note © 2018 American Physical Society
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.111302
Other links https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85053320052
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