Constraining the Spin-Dependent WIMP-Nucleon Cross Sections with XENON1T

E Aprile¹, J Aalbers^{2

3}, F Agostini⁴, M Alfonsi⁵, L Althueser⁶, F D Amaro⁷, M Anthony¹, V C Antochi², F Arneodo⁸, L Baudis⁹, B Bauermeister², M L Benabderrahmane⁸, T Berger¹⁰, P A Breur³, A Brown⁹, A Brown³, E Brown¹⁰, S Bruenner¹¹, G Bruno⁸, R Budnik¹², C Capelli⁹, J M R Cardoso⁷, D Cichon¹¹, D Coderre¹³, A P Colijn³, J Conrad², J P Cussonneau¹⁴, M P Decowski³, P de Perio¹, P Di Gangi⁴, A Di Giovanni⁸, S Diglio¹⁴, A Elykov¹³, G Eurin¹¹, J Fei¹⁵, A D Ferella², A Fieguth⁶, W Fulgione^{16

17}, A Gallo Rosso¹⁶, M Galloway⁹, F Gao¹, M Garbini⁴, L Grandi¹⁸, Z Greene¹, C Hasterok¹¹, E Hogenbirk³, J Howlett¹, M Iacovacci¹⁹, R Itay¹², F Joerg¹¹, S Kazama²⁰, A Kish⁹, G Koltman¹², A Kopec²¹, H Landsman¹², R F Lang²¹, L Levinson¹², Q Lin¹, S Lindemann¹³, M Lindner¹¹, F Lombardi¹⁵, J A M Lopes⁷, E López Fune²², C Macolino²³, J Mahlstedt², A Manfredini^{9

12}, F Marignetti¹⁹, T Marrodán Undagoitia¹¹, J Masbou¹⁴, D Masson²¹, S Mastroianni¹⁹, M Messina^{8

16}, K Micheneau¹⁴, K Miller¹⁸, A Molinario¹⁶, K Morå², Y Mosbacher¹², M Murra⁶, J Naganoma^{16

24}, K Ni¹⁵, U Oberlack⁵, K Odgers¹⁰, B Pelssers², F Piastra⁹, J Pienaar¹⁸, V Pizzella¹¹, G Plante¹, R Podviianiuk¹⁶, N Priel¹², H Qiu¹², D Ramírez García¹³, S Reichard⁹, B Riedel¹⁸, A Rizzo¹, A Rocchetti¹³, N Rupp¹¹, J M F Dos Santos⁷, G Sartorelli⁴, N Šarčević¹³, M Scheibelhut⁵, S Schindler⁵, J Schreiner¹¹, D Schulte⁶, M Schumann¹³, L Scotto Lavina²², M Selvi⁴, P Shagin²⁴, E Shockley¹⁸, M Silva⁷, H Simgen¹¹, C Therreau¹⁴, D Thers¹⁴, F Toschi¹³, G Trinchero¹⁷, C Tunnell¹⁸, N Upole¹⁸, M Vargas⁶, O Wack¹¹, H Wang²⁵, Z Wang¹⁶, Y Wei¹⁵, C Weinheimer⁶, D Wenz⁵, C Wittweg⁶, J Wulf⁹, Z Xu¹⁵, J Ye¹⁵, Y Zhang¹, T Zhu¹, J P Zopounidis²²; XENON Collaboration <a href="#n4">4</a>

Affiliations

¹ Physics Department, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA.
² Oskar Klein Centre, Department of Physics, Stockholm University, AlbaNova, Stockholm SE-10691, Sweden.
³ Nikhef and the University of Amsterdam, Science Park, 1098XG Amsterdam, Netherlands.
⁴ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Bologna and INFN-Bologna, 40126 Bologna, Italy.
⁵ Institut für Physik & Exzellenzcluster PRISMA, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, 55099 Mainz, Germany.
⁶ Institut für Kernphysik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, 48149 Münster, Germany.
⁷ LIBPhys, Department of Physics, University of Coimbra, 3004-516 Coimbra, Portugal.
⁸ New York University Abu Dhabi, 129188 Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
⁹ Physik-Institut, University of Zurich, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland.
¹⁰ Department of Physics, Applied Physics and Astronomy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York 12180, USA.
¹¹ Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany.
¹² Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 7610001, Israel.
¹³ Physikalisches Institut, Universität Freiburg, 79104 Freiburg, Germany.
¹⁴ SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, CNRS/IN2P3, Université de Nantes, Nantes 44307, France.
¹⁵ Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego, California 92093, USA.
¹⁶ INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso and Gran Sasso Science Institute, 67100 L'Aquila, Italy.
¹⁷ INFN-Torino and Osservatorio Astrofisico di Torino, 10125 Torino, Italy.
¹⁸ Department of Physics & Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA.
¹⁹ Department of Physics "Ettore Pancini," University of Napoli and INFN-Napoli, 80126 Napoli, Italy.
²⁰ Kobayashi-Maskawa Institute for the Origin of Particles and the Universe, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi 464-8602, Japan.
²¹ Department of Physics and Astronomy, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA.
²² LPNHE, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Université Paris Diderot, CNRS/IN2P3, Paris 75252, France.
²³ LAL, Université Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91405 Orsay, France.
²⁴ Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, USA.
²⁵ Physics & Astronomy Department, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA.

PMID: 31050482
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.141301

Constraining the Spin-Dependent WIMP-Nucleon Cross Sections with XENON1T

E Aprile et al. Phys Rev Lett. 2019.

. 2019 Apr 12;122(14):141301.

doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.141301.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Physics Department, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA.
² Oskar Klein Centre, Department of Physics, Stockholm University, AlbaNova, Stockholm SE-10691, Sweden.
³ Nikhef and the University of Amsterdam, Science Park, 1098XG Amsterdam, Netherlands.
⁴ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Bologna and INFN-Bologna, 40126 Bologna, Italy.
⁵ Institut für Physik & Exzellenzcluster PRISMA, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, 55099 Mainz, Germany.
⁶ Institut für Kernphysik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, 48149 Münster, Germany.
⁷ LIBPhys, Department of Physics, University of Coimbra, 3004-516 Coimbra, Portugal.
⁸ New York University Abu Dhabi, 129188 Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
⁹ Physik-Institut, University of Zurich, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland.
¹⁰ Department of Physics, Applied Physics and Astronomy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York 12180, USA.
¹¹ Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany.
¹² Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 7610001, Israel.
¹³ Physikalisches Institut, Universität Freiburg, 79104 Freiburg, Germany.
¹⁴ SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, CNRS/IN2P3, Université de Nantes, Nantes 44307, France.
¹⁵ Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego, California 92093, USA.
¹⁶ INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso and Gran Sasso Science Institute, 67100 L'Aquila, Italy.
¹⁷ INFN-Torino and Osservatorio Astrofisico di Torino, 10125 Torino, Italy.
¹⁸ Department of Physics & Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA.
¹⁹ Department of Physics "Ettore Pancini," University of Napoli and INFN-Napoli, 80126 Napoli, Italy.
²⁰ Kobayashi-Maskawa Institute for the Origin of Particles and the Universe, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi 464-8602, Japan.
²¹ Department of Physics and Astronomy, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA.
²² LPNHE, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Université Paris Diderot, CNRS/IN2P3, Paris 75252, France.
²³ LAL, Université Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91405 Orsay, France.
²⁴ Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, USA.
²⁵ Physics & Astronomy Department, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA.

PMID: 31050482
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.141301

Abstract

We report the first experimental results on spin-dependent elastic weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) nucleon scattering from the XENON1T dark matter search experiment. The analysis uses the full ton year exposure of XENON1T to constrain the spin-dependent proton-only and neutron-only cases. No significant signal excess is observed, and a profile likelihood ratio analysis is used to set exclusion limits on the WIMP-nucleon interactions. This includes the most stringent constraint to date on the WIMP-neutron cross section, with a minimum of 6.3×10^{-42} cm^{2} at 30 GeV/c^{2} and 90% confidence level. The results are compared with those from collider searches and used to exclude new parameter space in an isoscalar theory with an axial-vector mediator.

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Constraining the Spin-Dependent WIMP-Nucleon Cross Sections with XENON1T

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Constraining the Spin-Dependent WIMP-Nucleon Cross Sections with XENON1T

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