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Constraints on dark matter interactions from the first results of DarkSide-50

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2019-12-30 v2

Abstract

In an extended effective operator framework of isospin violating interactions with light mediators, we investigate the compatibility of the candidate signal of the CDMS-II-Si with the latest constraints from DarkSide-50 and XENON-1T, etc. We show that the constraints from DarkSide-50 which utilizes Argon as the target is complementary to that from XENON-1T which utilizes Xenon. Combining the results of the two experiments, we find that for isospin violating interaction with light mediator there is no parameter space which can be compatible with the positive signals from CDMS-II-Si. As a concrete example of this framework, we investigate the dark photon model in detail. We obtain the combined limits on the dark matter mass mχm_{\chi}, the dark photon mass mAm_{A'}, and the kinetic mixing parameter ε\varepsilon in the dark photon model. The DarkSide-50 gives more stringent upper limits in the region of mediator mass from 0.001 to 1 GeV, for mχ6m_{\chi} \lesssim 6 GeV in the (mAm_{A'},ε\varepsilon) plane, and more stringent constraints for mχ8m_{\chi}\lesssim 8 GeV and ε108\varepsilon \thicksim 10^{-8} in the (mχm_{\chi},mAm_{A'}) plane.

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@article{arxiv.1904.02193,
  title  = {Constraints on dark matter interactions from the first results of DarkSide-50},
  author = {Chun-Yuan Li and Zong-Guo Si and Yu-Feng Zhou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.02193},
  year   = {2019}
}

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22 pages, 5 figures