Search for Dark-Matter-Nucleon Interactions via Migdal Effect with DarkSide-50

P Agnes¹, I F M Albuquerque², T Alexander³, A K Alton⁴, M Ave², H O Back³, G Batignani^{5

6}, K Biery⁷, V Bocci⁸, W M Bonivento⁹, B Bottino^{10

11}, S Bussino^{12

13}, M Cadeddu⁹, M Cadoni^{9

14}, F Calaprice¹⁵, A Caminata¹¹, M D Campos¹⁶, N Canci¹⁷, M Caravati⁹, N Cargioli⁹, M Cariello¹¹, M Carlini^{17

18}, V Cataudella^{19

20}, P Cavalcante^{17

21}, S Cavuoti^{19

20}, S Chashin²², A Chepurnov²², C Cicalò⁹, G Covone^{19

20}, D D'Angelo^{23

24}, S Davini¹¹, A De Candia^{19

20}, S De Cecco^{8

25}, G De Filippis^{19

20}, G De Rosa^{19

20}, A V Derbin²⁶, A Devoto^{9

14}, M D'Incecco¹⁷, C Dionisi^{8

25}, F Dordei⁹, M Downing²⁷, D D'Urso^{28

29}, M Fairbairn¹⁶, G Fiorillo^{19

20}, D Franco³⁰, F Gabriele⁹, C Galbiati^{15

17

18}, C Ghiano¹⁷, C Giganti³¹, G K Giovanetti¹⁵, A M Goretti¹⁷, G Grilli di Cortona³², A Grobov^{33

34}, M Gromov^{22

35}, M Guan³⁶, M Gulino^{29

37}, B R Hackett³, K Herner⁷, T Hessel³⁰, B Hosseini⁹, F Hubaut³⁸, E V Hungerford³⁹, An Ianni^{15

17}, V Ippolito⁸, K Keeter⁴⁰, C L Kendziora⁷, M Kimura⁴¹, I Kochanek¹⁷, D Korablev³⁵, G Korga^{17

39}, A Kubankin⁴², M Kuss⁵, M La Commara^{19

20}, M Lai^{9

14}, X Li¹⁵, M Lissia⁹, G Longo^{19

20}, O Lychagina^{22

35}, I N Machulin^{33

34}, L P Mapelli⁴³, S M Mari^{12

13}, J Maricic⁴⁴, A Messina^{8

25}, R Milincic⁴⁴, J Monroe¹, M Morrocchi^{5

6}, X Mougeot⁴⁵, V N Muratova²⁶, P Musico¹¹, A O Nozdrina^{33

34}, A Oleinik⁴², F Ortica^{46

47}, L Pagani⁴⁸, M Pallavicini^{10

11}, L Pandola²⁹, E Pantic⁴⁸, E Paoloni^{5

6}, K Pelczar^{17

49}, N Pelliccia^{46

47}, S Piacentini⁸, A Pocar²⁷, D M Poehlmann⁴⁸, S Pordes⁷, S S Poudel³⁹, P Pralavorio³⁸, D D Price⁵⁰, F Ragusa^{23

24}, M Razeti⁹, A Razeto¹⁷, A L Renshaw³⁹, M Rescigno⁸, J Rode^{30

31}, A Romani^{46

47}, D Sablone^{15

17}, O Samoylov³⁵, E Sandford⁵⁰, W Sands¹⁵, S Sanfilippo^{12

13}, C Savarese¹⁵, B Schlitzer⁴⁸, D A Semenov²⁶, A Shchagin⁴², A Sheshukov³⁵, M D Skorokhvatov^{33

34}, O Smirnov³⁵, A Sotnikov³⁵, S Stracka⁵, Y Suvorov^{19

20

33}, R Tartaglia¹⁷, G Testera¹¹, A Tonazzo³⁰, E V Unzhakov²⁶, A Vishneva³⁵, R B Vogelaar²¹, M Wada^{14

41}, H Wang⁴³, Y Wang^{36

43}, S Westerdale^{9

15}, M M Wojcik⁴⁹, X Xiao⁴³, C Yang³⁶, G Zuzel⁴⁹; DarkSide Collaboration

Affiliations

¹ Department of Physics, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham TW20 0EX, United Kingdom.
² Instituto de Física, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo 05508-090, Brazil.
³ Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, USA.
⁴ Physics Department, Augustana University, Sioux Falls, South Dakota 57197, USA.
⁵ INFN Pisa, Pisa 56127, Italy.
⁶ Physics Department, Università degli Studi di Pisa, Pisa 56127, Italy.
⁷ Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA.
⁸ INFN Sezione di Roma, Roma 00185, Italy.
⁹ INFN Cagliari, Cagliari 09042, Italy.
¹⁰ Physics Department, Università degli Studi di Genova, Genova 16146, Italy.
¹¹ INFN Genova, Genova 16146, Italy.
¹² INFN Roma Tre, Roma 00146, Italy.
¹³ Mathematics and Physics Department, Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Roma 00146, Italy.
¹⁴ Physics Department, Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Cagliari 09042, Italy.
¹⁵ Physics Department, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA.
¹⁶ Physics, Kings College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, United Kingdom.
¹⁷ INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (AQ) 67100, Italy.
¹⁸ Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila 67100, Italy.
¹⁹ Physics Department, Università degli Studi "Federico II" di Napoli, Napoli 80126, Italy.
²⁰ INFN Napoli, Napoli 80126, Italy.
²¹ Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, USA.
²² Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow 119234, Russia.
²³ Physics Department, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano 20133, Italy.
²⁴ INFN Milano, Milano 20133, Italy.
²⁵ Physics Department, Sapienza Università di Roma, Roma 00185, Italy.
²⁶ Saint Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina 188350, Russia.
²⁷ Amherst Center for Fundamental Interactions and Physics Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA.
²⁸ Chemistry and Pharmacy Department, Università degli Studi di Sassari, Sassari 07100, Italy.
²⁹ INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Catania 95123, Italy.
³⁰ APC, Université de Paris, CNRS, Astroparticule et Cosmologie, Paris F-75013, France.
³¹ LPNHE, CNRS/IN2P3, Sorbonne Université, Université Paris Diderot, Paris 75252, France.
³² INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati 00044, Italy.
³³ National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow 123182, Russia.
³⁴ National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, Moscow 115409, Russia.
³⁵ Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna 141980, Russia.
³⁶ Institute of High Energy Physics, Beijing 100049, China.
³⁷ Engineering and Architecture Faculty, Università di Enna Kore, Enna 94100, Italy.
³⁸ Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille, Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS/IN2P3, CPPM, Marseille, France.
³⁹ Department of Physics, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77204, USA.
⁴⁰ School of Natural Sciences, Black Hills State University, Spearfish, South Dakota 57799, USA.
⁴¹ AstroCeNT, Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, 00-614 Warsaw, Poland.
⁴² Radiation Physics Laboratory, Belgorod National Research University, Belgorod 308007, Russia.
⁴³ Physics and Astronomy Department, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA.
⁴⁴ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Hawai'i, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822, USA.
⁴⁵ Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, List, Laboratoire National Henri Becquerel (LNE-LNHB), F-91120 Palaiseau, France.
⁴⁶ Chemistry, Biology and Biotechnology Department, Università degli Studi di Perugia, Perugia 06123, Italy.
⁴⁷ INFN Perugia, Perugia 06123, Italy.
⁴⁸ Department of Physics, University of California, Davis, California 95616, USA.
⁴⁹ M. Smoluchowski Institute of Physics, Jagiellonian University, 30-348 Krakow, Poland.
⁵⁰ The University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom.

PMID: 36962014
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.101001

Search for Dark-Matter-Nucleon Interactions via Migdal Effect with DarkSide-50

P Agnes et al. Phys Rev Lett. 2023.

. 2023 Mar 10;130(10):101001.

doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.101001.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Department of Physics, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham TW20 0EX, United Kingdom.
² Instituto de Física, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo 05508-090, Brazil.
³ Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, USA.
⁴ Physics Department, Augustana University, Sioux Falls, South Dakota 57197, USA.
⁵ INFN Pisa, Pisa 56127, Italy.
⁶ Physics Department, Università degli Studi di Pisa, Pisa 56127, Italy.
⁷ Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA.
⁸ INFN Sezione di Roma, Roma 00185, Italy.
⁹ INFN Cagliari, Cagliari 09042, Italy.
¹⁰ Physics Department, Università degli Studi di Genova, Genova 16146, Italy.
¹¹ INFN Genova, Genova 16146, Italy.
¹² INFN Roma Tre, Roma 00146, Italy.
¹³ Mathematics and Physics Department, Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Roma 00146, Italy.
¹⁴ Physics Department, Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Cagliari 09042, Italy.
¹⁵ Physics Department, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA.
¹⁶ Physics, Kings College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, United Kingdom.
¹⁷ INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (AQ) 67100, Italy.
¹⁸ Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila 67100, Italy.
¹⁹ Physics Department, Università degli Studi "Federico II" di Napoli, Napoli 80126, Italy.
²⁰ INFN Napoli, Napoli 80126, Italy.
²¹ Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, USA.
²² Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow 119234, Russia.
²³ Physics Department, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano 20133, Italy.
²⁴ INFN Milano, Milano 20133, Italy.
²⁵ Physics Department, Sapienza Università di Roma, Roma 00185, Italy.
²⁶ Saint Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina 188350, Russia.
²⁷ Amherst Center for Fundamental Interactions and Physics Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA.
²⁸ Chemistry and Pharmacy Department, Università degli Studi di Sassari, Sassari 07100, Italy.
²⁹ INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Catania 95123, Italy.
³⁰ APC, Université de Paris, CNRS, Astroparticule et Cosmologie, Paris F-75013, France.
³¹ LPNHE, CNRS/IN2P3, Sorbonne Université, Université Paris Diderot, Paris 75252, France.
³² INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati 00044, Italy.
³³ National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow 123182, Russia.
³⁴ National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, Moscow 115409, Russia.
³⁵ Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna 141980, Russia.
³⁶ Institute of High Energy Physics, Beijing 100049, China.
³⁷ Engineering and Architecture Faculty, Università di Enna Kore, Enna 94100, Italy.
³⁸ Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille, Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS/IN2P3, CPPM, Marseille, France.
³⁹ Department of Physics, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77204, USA.
⁴⁰ School of Natural Sciences, Black Hills State University, Spearfish, South Dakota 57799, USA.
⁴¹ AstroCeNT, Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, 00-614 Warsaw, Poland.
⁴² Radiation Physics Laboratory, Belgorod National Research University, Belgorod 308007, Russia.
⁴³ Physics and Astronomy Department, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA.
⁴⁴ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Hawai'i, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822, USA.
⁴⁵ Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, List, Laboratoire National Henri Becquerel (LNE-LNHB), F-91120 Palaiseau, France.
⁴⁶ Chemistry, Biology and Biotechnology Department, Università degli Studi di Perugia, Perugia 06123, Italy.
⁴⁷ INFN Perugia, Perugia 06123, Italy.
⁴⁸ Department of Physics, University of California, Davis, California 95616, USA.
⁴⁹ M. Smoluchowski Institute of Physics, Jagiellonian University, 30-348 Krakow, Poland.
⁵⁰ The University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom.

PMID: 36962014
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.101001

Abstract

Dark matter elastic scattering off nuclei can result in the excitation and ionization of the recoiling atom through the so-called Migdal effect. The energy deposition from the ionization electron adds to the energy deposited by the recoiling nuclear system and allows for the detection of interactions of sub-GeV/c^{2} mass dark matter. We present new constraints for sub-GeV/c^{2} dark matter using the dual-phase liquid argon time projection chamber of the DarkSide-50 experiment with an exposure of (12 306±184) kg d. The analysis is based on the ionization signal alone and significantly enhances the sensitivity of DarkSide-50, enabling sensitivity to dark matter with masses down to 40 MeV/c^{2}. Furthermore, it sets the most stringent upper limit on the spin independent dark matter nucleon cross section for masses below 3.6 GeV/c^{2}.

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