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Constraints on General Light Mediators from PandaX-II Electron Recoil Data

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2021-06-07 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

PandaX-II has analyzed their complete data set of the electron recoil energy spectrum and has confirmed the XENON1T (1-7) keV excess, although the excess was also found compatible with the total background. Treating the background as well known, in which case it provides a good fit to the observed spectrum, one can expect stronger constraints on any new physics model with this data. With this motivation, we derive constraints on the new general vector (V), axial-vector (A), scalar (S) and pseudoscalar (P) interactions if any of them contribute to the neutrino-electron elastic scattering. The derived constraints on the couplings at 90%90\% C.L., respectively, are gV32×107g_{V^{^{\prime }}} \lesssim 32 \times 10^{-7} for the mediator mass 10{\lesssim 10} keV, gA34×107g_{A^{^{\prime }}} \lesssim 34 \times 10^{-7} for mass 10{\lesssim 10} keV, gS49×107g_{S}\lesssim 49 \times 10^{-7} for mass 20{\lesssim 20} keV and gP67×107g_{P} \lesssim 67 \times 10^{-7} for mass 30{\lesssim 30} keV.

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@article{arxiv.2008.10279,
  title  = {Constraints on General Light Mediators from PandaX-II Electron Recoil Data},
  author = {Amir N. Khan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.10279},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

8 pages + 4 figure + 1 table; Analysis part was improved. 2 dim exclusion plots were included. Some typos fixed. Published in PLB

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