Absorption of Fermionic Dark Matter in the PICO-60 C_{3}F_{8} Bubble Chamber

E Adams¹, B Ali², R Anderson-Dornan³, I J Arnquist⁴, M Bai¹, D Baxter⁵, E Behnke⁶, B Broerman¹, C J Chen⁷, K Clark¹, J I Collar⁸, P S Cooper⁵, D Cranshaw¹, C Cripe⁶, M Crisler⁵, C E Dahl^{5

7}, M Das⁹, S Das⁹, S Fallows¹⁰, J Farine^{11

12

13}, R Filgas², A García-Viltres³, G Giroux¹, O Harris¹⁴, H Hawley-Herrera¹, T Hillier¹¹, E W Hoppe⁴, C M Jackson⁴, M Jin⁷, C B Krauss¹⁰, M Laurin¹⁵, I Lawson^{11

12}, A Leblanc¹¹, H Leng¹⁶, I Levine⁶, C Licciardi^{11

12

13}, W H Lippincott^{5

17}, Q Malin¹⁰, P Mitra¹⁰, V Monette¹⁵, C Moore¹, R Neilson¹⁸, A J Noble¹, H Nozard¹⁵, S Pal¹⁰, M-C Piro¹⁰, S Priya¹⁶, C Rethmeier¹⁰, M Robert¹, A E Robinson¹⁵, J Savoie¹⁵, S J Sekula^{1

12}, A Sonnenschein⁵, N Starinski¹⁵, I Štekl², M Tripathi⁸, E Vázquez-Jáuregui³, U Wichoski^{11

12

13}, W Woodley¹⁰, V Zacek¹⁵, J Zhang⁷; PICO Collaboration

Affiliations

¹ Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada.
² Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague Cz-12800, Czech Republic.
³ Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Física, A.P. 20-364, Ciudad de México 01000, México.
⁴ Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99354, USA.
⁵ Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA.
⁶ Department of Physics, Indiana University South Bend, South Bend, Indiana 46634, USA.
⁷ Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA.
⁸ Enrico Fermi Institute, KICP, and Department of Physics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA.
⁹ High Energy Nuclear and Particle Physics Division, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India.
¹⁰ Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E1, Canada.
¹¹ School of Natural Sciences, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario P3E 2C6, Canada.
¹² SNOLAB, Lively, Ontario P3Y 1N2, Canada.
¹³ Department of Physics, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario K1S 5B6, Canada.
¹⁴ Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, Illinois 60625, USA.
¹⁵ Département de Physique, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec H2V 0B3, Canada.
¹⁶ Materials Research Institute, Penn State, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA.
¹⁷ Department of Physics, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA.
¹⁸ Department of Physics, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA.

PMID: 40743101
DOI: 10.1103/1cwz-m1c3

Absorption of Fermionic Dark Matter in the PICO-60 C_{3}F_{8} Bubble Chamber

E Adams et al. Phys Rev Lett. 2025.

. 2025 Jul 2;135(1):011001.

doi: 10.1103/1cwz-m1c3.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada.
² Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague Cz-12800, Czech Republic.
³ Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Física, A.P. 20-364, Ciudad de México 01000, México.
⁴ Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99354, USA.
⁵ Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA.
⁶ Department of Physics, Indiana University South Bend, South Bend, Indiana 46634, USA.
⁷ Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA.
⁸ Enrico Fermi Institute, KICP, and Department of Physics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA.
⁹ High Energy Nuclear and Particle Physics Division, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India.
¹⁰ Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E1, Canada.
¹¹ School of Natural Sciences, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario P3E 2C6, Canada.
¹² SNOLAB, Lively, Ontario P3Y 1N2, Canada.
¹³ Department of Physics, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario K1S 5B6, Canada.
¹⁴ Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, Illinois 60625, USA.
¹⁵ Département de Physique, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec H2V 0B3, Canada.
¹⁶ Materials Research Institute, Penn State, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA.
¹⁷ Department of Physics, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA.
¹⁸ Department of Physics, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA.

PMID: 40743101
DOI: 10.1103/1cwz-m1c3

Abstract

Fermionic dark matter absorption on nuclear targets via neutral current interactions is explored using a nonrelativistic effective field theory framework. An analysis of data from the PICO-60 C_{3}F_{8} bubble chamber sets leading constraints on spin-independent absorption for dark matter masses below 23 MeV/c^{2} and establishes the first limits on spin-dependent absorptive interactions. These results demonstrate the sensitivity of bubble chambers to low-mass dark matter and underscore the importance of absorption searches in expanding the parameter space of direct detection experiments.

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Absorption of Fermionic Dark Matter in the PICO-60 C_{3}F_{8} Bubble Chamber

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