Search for MeV electron recoils from dark matter in EXO-200

Al Kharusi S, Anton G, Badhrees I, Barbeau PS, Beck D, Belov V, Bhatta T, Breidenbach M, Brunner T, Cao GF, Cen WR, Chambers C, Cleveland B, Coon M, Craycraft A, Daniels T, Darroch L, Daugherty SJ, Davis J, Delaquis S, Der Mesrobian-Kabakian A, DeVoe R, Dilling J, Dolgolenko A, Dolinski MJ, Echevers J, Fairbank W, Fairbank D, Farine J, Feyzbakhsh S, Fierlinger P, Fu YS, Fudenberg D, Gautam P, Gornea R, Gratta G, Hall C, Hansen EV, Hößl J, Hufschmidt P, Hughes M, Iverson A, Jamil A, Jessiman C, Jewell MJ, Johnson A, Karelin A, Kaufman LJ, Koffas T, Krücken R, Kuchenkov A, Kumar KS, Lan Y, Larson DS, Lenardo BG, Leonard DS, Li GS, Li S, Li Z, Licciardi C, Lin YH, MacLellan R, Mcelroy T, Michel T, Mong B, Moore DC, Murray K, Njoya O, Nusair O, Odian A, Ostrovskiy I, Perna A, Piepke A, Pocar A, Retière F, Robinson AL, Rowson PC, Ruddell D, Runge J, Schmidt S, Sinclair D, Skarpaas K, Soma AK, Stekhanov V, Tarka M, Thibado S, Todd M, Tolba T, Totev TI, Tsang RHM, Veenstra B, Veeraraghavan V, Vogel P, Vuilleumier JL, Wagenpfeil M, Watkins J, Wen LJ, Wichoski U, Wrede G, Wu SX, Xia Q, Yahne DR, Yang L, Yen YR, Zeldovich OY, Ziegler T (2023)

Publication Language: English

Publication Type: Journal article

Publication year: 2023

Journal

Book Volume: 107

Article Number: 012007

Journal Issue: 1

DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.107.012007

Abstract

We present a search for electron-recoil signatures from the charged-current absorption of fermionic dark matter using the EXO-200 detector. We report an average electron-recoil background rate of 6.8 x 104 cts kg-1 yr-1 keV above 4 MeV and find no statistically significant excess over our background projection. Using a total 136Xe exposure of 234.1 kg yr, we exclude new parameter space for the charged -current absorption cross section for dark matter masses between mx 1/4 2.6-11.6 MeV with a minimum of 6 x 1051 cm2 at 8.3 MeV at the 90% confidence level.

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Drexel University United States (USA) (US) McGill University Canada (CA) Stanford University United States (USA) (US) Stanford National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC) United States (USA) (US) University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) United States (USA) (US) Laurentian University Canada (CA) University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass) United States (USA) (US) Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEP) /Институт теоретической и экспериментальной физики Russian Federation (RU) Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) / 中国科学院高能物理研究所 China (CN) Carleton University Canada (CA) University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego, UCSD) United States (USA) (US) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign United States (USA) (US) University of South Dakota United States (USA) (US) University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW) United States (USA) (US) Indiana University United States (USA) (US) Colorado State University United States (USA) (US) Yale University United States (USA) (US) TRIUMF Canada (CA) Duke University United States (USA) (US) Universität Bern Switzerland (CH) University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) United States (USA) (US) California Institute of Technology (Caltech) United States (USA) (US) Technische Universität München (TUM) Germany (DE) Institute for Basic Science Korea, Republic of (KR) State University of New York at Albany (UNY Albany / UAlbany) United States (USA) (US)

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APA:

Al Kharusi, S., Anton, G., Badhrees, I., Barbeau, P.S., Beck, D., Belov, V.,... Ziegler, T. (2023). Search for MeV electron recoils from dark matter in EXO-200. Physical Review D, 107(1). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.107.012007

MLA:

Al Kharusi, S., et al. "Search for MeV electron recoils from dark matter in EXO-200." Physical Review D 107.1 (2023).

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