Dark Matter Results from 225 Live Days of XENON100 Data
Abstract
We report on a search for particle dark matter with the XENON100 experiment, operated at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS) for 13 months during 2011 and 2012. XENON100 features an ultra-low electromagnetic background of (5.3 \pm 0.6) \times 10^-3 events (kg day keVee)^-1 in the energy region of interest. A blind analysis of 224.6 live days \times 34 kg exposure has yielded no evidence for dark matter interactions. The two candidate events observed in the pre-defined nuclear recoil energy range of 6.6-30.5 keVnr are consistent with the background expectation of (1.0 \pm 0.2) events. A Profile Likelihood analysis using a 6.6-43.3 keVnr energy range sets the most stringent limit on the spin-independent elastic WIMP-nucleon scattering cross section for WIMP masses above 8 GeV/c^2, with a minimum of 2 \times 10^-45 cm^2 at 55 GeV/c^2 and 90% confidence level.
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@article{arxiv.1207.5988,
title = {Dark Matter Results from 225 Live Days of XENON100 Data},
author = {XENON100 Collaboration and E. Aprile and M. Alfonsi and K. Arisaka and F. Arneodo and C. Balan and L. Baudis and B. Bauermeister and A. Behrens and P. Beltrame and K. Bokeloh and E. Brown and G. Bruno and R. Budnik and J. M. R. Cardoso and W. -T. Chen and B. Choi and D. Cline and A. P. Colijn and H. Contreras and J. P. Cussonneau and M. P. Decowski and E. Duchovni and S. Fattori and A. D. Ferella and W. Fulgione and F. Gao and M. Garbini and C. Ghag and K. -L. Giboni and L. W. Goetzke and C. Grignon and E. Gross and W. Hampel and F. Kaether and H. Kettling and A. Kish and J. Lamblin and H. Landsman and R. F. Lang and M. Le Calloch and C. Levy and K. E. Lim and Q. Lin and S. Lindemann and M. Lindner and J. A. M. Lopes and K. Lung and T. Marrodan Undagoitia and F. V. Massoli and A. J. Melgarejo Fernandez and Y. Meng and A. Molinario and E. Nativ and K. Ni and U. Oberlack and S. E. A. Orrigo and E. Pantic and R. Persiani and G. Plante and N. Priel and A. Rizzo and S. Rosendahl and J. M. F. dos Santos and G. Sartorelli and J. Schreiner and M. Schumann and L. Scotto Lavina and P. R. Scovell and M. Selvi and P. Shagin and H. Simgen and A. Teymourian and D. Thers and O. Vitells and H. Wang and M. Weber and C. Weinheimer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1207.5988},
year = {2013}
}
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6 pages, 5 figures. Matches version accepted by PRL. Includes limits up to 10 TeV/c^2, published as supplementary material: http://prl.aps.org/supplemental/PRL/v109/i18/e181301 Please cite high mass limits as "Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 181301 (2012), online supplementary material."