First Searches for Axions and Axionlike Particles with the LUX Experiment

D S Akerib^{1

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3}, M S Witherell¹⁸, F L H Wolfs²⁰, J Xu¹¹, K Yazdani⁶, S K Young²¹, C Zhang¹³; LUX Collaboration

Affiliations

¹ Case Western Reserve University, Department of Physics, 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA.
² SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94205, USA.
³ Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University, 452 Lomita Mall, Stanford, California 94309, USA.
⁴ University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Physics, 1150 University Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA.
⁵ SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3FD, United Kingdom.
⁶ Imperial College London, High Energy Physics, Blackett Laboratory, London SW7 2BZ, United Kingdom.
⁷ South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, 501 East St. Joseph Street, Rapid City, South Dakota 57701, USA.
⁸ University of Maryland, Department of Physics, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA.
⁹ University of California Berkeley, Department of Physics, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.
¹⁰ Yale University, Department of Physics, 217 Prospect Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA.
¹¹ Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, California 94551, USA.
¹² LIP-Coimbra, Department of Physics, University of Coimbra, Rua Larga, 3004-516 Coimbra, Portugal.
¹³ University of South Dakota, Department of Physics, 414E Clark Street, Vermillion, South Dakota 57069, USA.
¹⁴ South Dakota Science and Technology Authority, Sanford Underground Research Facility, Lead, South Dakota 57754, USA.
¹⁵ Pennsylvania State University, Department of Physics, 104 Davey Lab, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802-6300, USA.
¹⁶ Brown University, Department of Physics, 182 Hope Street, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA.
¹⁷ University of California Davis, Department of Physics, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616, USA.
¹⁸ Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.
¹⁹ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom.
²⁰ University of Rochester, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rochester, New York 14627, USA.
²¹ University at Albany, State University of New York, Department of Physics, 1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, New York 12222, USA.
²² University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Physics, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA.
²³ University of Massachusetts, Department of Physics, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003-9337 USA.
²⁴ Texas A & M University, Department of Physics, College Station, Texas 77843, USA.

PMID: 28707937
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.261301

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First Searches for Axions and Axionlike Particles with the LUX Experiment

D S Akerib et al. Phys Rev Lett. 2017.

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. 2017 Jun 30;118(26):261301.

doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.261301. Epub 2017 Jun 29.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Case Western Reserve University, Department of Physics, 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA.
² SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94205, USA.
³ Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University, 452 Lomita Mall, Stanford, California 94309, USA.
⁴ University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Physics, 1150 University Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA.
⁵ SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3FD, United Kingdom.
⁶ Imperial College London, High Energy Physics, Blackett Laboratory, London SW7 2BZ, United Kingdom.
⁷ South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, 501 East St. Joseph Street, Rapid City, South Dakota 57701, USA.
⁸ University of Maryland, Department of Physics, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA.
⁹ University of California Berkeley, Department of Physics, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.
¹⁰ Yale University, Department of Physics, 217 Prospect Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA.
¹¹ Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, California 94551, USA.
¹² LIP-Coimbra, Department of Physics, University of Coimbra, Rua Larga, 3004-516 Coimbra, Portugal.
¹³ University of South Dakota, Department of Physics, 414E Clark Street, Vermillion, South Dakota 57069, USA.
¹⁴ South Dakota Science and Technology Authority, Sanford Underground Research Facility, Lead, South Dakota 57754, USA.
¹⁵ Pennsylvania State University, Department of Physics, 104 Davey Lab, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802-6300, USA.
¹⁶ Brown University, Department of Physics, 182 Hope Street, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA.
¹⁷ University of California Davis, Department of Physics, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616, USA.
¹⁸ Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.
¹⁹ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom.
²⁰ University of Rochester, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rochester, New York 14627, USA.
²¹ University at Albany, State University of New York, Department of Physics, 1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, New York 12222, USA.
²² University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Physics, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA.
²³ University of Massachusetts, Department of Physics, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003-9337 USA.
²⁴ Texas A & M University, Department of Physics, College Station, Texas 77843, USA.

PMID: 28707937
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.261301

Abstract

The first searches for axions and axionlike particles with the Large Underground Xenon experiment are presented. Under the assumption of an axioelectric interaction in xenon, the coupling constant between axions and electrons g_{Ae} is tested using data collected in 2013 with an exposure totaling 95 live days ×118 kg. A double-sided, profile likelihood ratio statistic test excludes g_{Ae} larger than 3.5×10^{-12} (90% C.L.) for solar axions. Assuming the Dine-Fischler-Srednicki-Zhitnitsky theoretical description, the upper limit in coupling corresponds to an upper limit on axion mass of 0.12 eV/c^{2}, while for the Kim-Shifman-Vainshtein-Zhakharov description masses above 36.6 eV/c^{2} are excluded. For galactic axionlike particles, values of g_{Ae} larger than 4.2×10^{-13} are excluded for particle masses in the range 1-16 keV/c^{2}. These are the most stringent constraints to date for these interactions.

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First Searches for Axions and Axionlike Particles with the LUX Experiment

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