Results of a Search for Sub-GeV Dark Matter Using 2013 LUX Data
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- Authors
- D. P. Hogan; M. G. D. Gilchriese; K. T. Lesko; Henrique Araujo; Sergey Burdin; C. Ghag; Q. Riffard; L. Tvrznikova; J. Lin; C. R. Hall; A. Naylor; S. Alsum; S. J. Haselschwardt; T. J. R. Davison; S. Shaw; Matthew Szydagis; P. A. Terman; D. Q. Huang; Carl Gwilliam; M. Moongweluwan; J. Genovesi; Jilei Xu; C. Nehrkorn; M. S. Witherell; O. Jahangir; Daniel McKinsey; D. Byram; S. Uvarov; X. Bai; C. Chan; S. Kravitz; H. N. Nelson; M. Horn; R. G. Jacobsen; F. Neves; J. E. Cutter; V. Velan; A. Fan; Kareem Kazkaz; A. Manalaysay; T. P. Biesiadzinski; W. Ji; B. Boxer; M. C. Carmona-Benitez; P. Sorensen; P. Brás; T. J. Whitis; K. J. Palladino; K. Kamdin; Ethan Bernard; F.L.H. Wolfs; P. Beltrame; Dongming Mei; D. J. Taylor; B. P. Tennyson; T. A. Shutt; J. A. Morad; U. Utku; C. Rhyne; E. K. Pease; C. Silva; R. L. Mannino; Elena Korolkova; R. J. Gaitskell; V. N. Solovov; K. C. Oliver-Mallory; M. F. Marzioni; S. A. Hertel; E. Druszkiewicz; K. Yazdani; G. R. C. Rischbieter; Chao Zhang; D. Khaitan; S. R. Fallon; N. Marangou; V. A. Kudryavtsev; D. R. Tiedt; J. T. White; C. M. Ignarra; D. S. Akerib; E. M. Boulton; T. J. Sumner; W. H. To; A. Lindote; D. Woodward; A. St. J. Murphy; Adam Bernstein; W. C. Taylor; M.I. Lopes; R. Knoche; J. Balajthy; J. Liao; Mani Tripathi; R. C. Webb; S. Fiorucci; P. Rossiter; B. G. Lenardo; M. Solmaz
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- BASE-Bielefeld Academic Search Engine
Akerib, DS; Alsum, S; Araújo, HM; Bai, X; Balajthy, J; Beltrame, P; et al.(2018). Results of a search for sub-GeV dark matter using 2013 LUX data. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory: Retrieved from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/49g4r7md
Akerib, D S, Alsum, S, Araújo, H M, Bai, X, Balajthy, J, Beltrame, P, Bernard, E P, Bernstein, A, Biesiadzinski, T P, Boulton, E M, Boxer, B, Brás, P, Burdin, S, Byram, D, Carmona-Benitez, M C, Chan, C, Cutter, J E, Davison, T J R, Druszkiewicz, E, Fallon, S R, Fan, A, Fiorucci, S, Gaitskell, R J, Genovesi, J, Ghag, C, Gilchriese, M G D, Gwilliam, C, Hall, C R, Haselschwardt, S J, Hertel, S A, Hogan, D P, Horn, M, Huang, D Q, Ignarra, C M, Jacobsen, R G, Jahangir, O, Ji, W, Kamdin, K, Kazkaz, K, Khaitan, D, Knoche, R, Korolkova, E V, Kravitz, S, Kudryavtsev, V A, Lenardo, B G, Lesko, K T, Liao, J, Lin, J, Lindote, A, Lopes, M I, Manalaysay, A, Mannino, R L, Marangou, N, Marzioni, M F, McKinsey, D N, Mei, D-M, Moongweluwan, M, Morad, J A, Murphy, A, Naylor, A, Nehrkorn, C, Nelson, H N, Neves, F, Oliver-Mallory, K C, Palladino, K J, Pease, E K, Riffard, Q, Rischbieter, G R C, Rhyne, C, Rossiter, P, Shaw, S, Shutt, T A, Silva, C, Solmaz, M, Solovov, V N, Sorensen, P, Sumner, T J, Szydagis, M, Taylor, D J, Taylor, W C, Tennyson, B P, Terman, P A, Tiedt, D R, To, W H, Tripathi, M, Tvrznikova, L, Utku, U, Uvarov, S, Velan, V, Webb, R C, White, J T, Whitis, T J, Witherell, M S, Wolfs, F L H, Woodward, D, Xu, J, Yazdani, K & Zhang, C 2019, ' Results of a search for sub-GeV dark matter using 2013 LUX data ', Physical Review Letters . https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.131301
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- General Physics
Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors
Physics, Multidisciplinary
Dark matter
FOS: Physical sciences
General Physics and Astronomy
chemistry.chemical_element
Electron
01 natural sciences
7. Clean energy
09 Engineering
High Energy Physics - Experiment
LUX Collaboration
Nuclear physics
High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
Xenon
Recoil
Ionization
0103 physical sciences
Nuclear Experiment
010306 general physics
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
physics.ins-det
01 Mathematical Sciences
Physics
Scintillation
Science & Technology
02 Physical Sciences
hep-ex
Scattering
Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
chemistry
Physical Sciences
Scintillation counter
astro-ph.CO
Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
astro-ph.IM
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- ISSN
- 1079-7114
0031-9007
The scattering of dark matter (DM) particles with sub-GeV masses off nuclei is difficult to detect using liquid xenon-based DM search instruments because the energy transfer during nuclear recoils is smaller than the typical detector threshold. However, the tree-level DM-nucleus scattering diagram can be accompanied by simultaneous emission of a Bremsstrahlung photon or a so-called "Migdal" electron. These provide an electron recoil component to the experimental signature at higher energies than the corresponding nuclear recoil. The presence of this signature allows liquid xenon detectors to use both the scintillation and the ionization signals in the analysis where the nuclear recoil signal would not be otherwise visible. We report constraints on spin-independent DM-nucleon scattering for DM particles with masses of 0.4-5 GeV/c$^2$ using 1.4$\times10^4$ kg$\cdot$day of search exposure from the 2013 data from the Large Underground Xenon (LUX) experiment for four different classes of mediators. This analysis extends the reach of liquid xenon-based DM search instruments to lower DM masses than has been achieved previously.