Dark Matter Search Results from the PandaX-4T Commissioning Run
High Energy Physics - Experiment
2022-01-05 v3 Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract
We report the first dark matter search results using the commissioning data from PandaX-4T. Using a time projection chamber with 3.7-tonne of liquid xenon target and an exposure of 0.63 tonneyear, 1058 candidate events are identified within an approximate nuclear recoil energy window between 5 and 100 keV. No significant excess over background is observed. Our data set a stringent limit to the dark matter-nucleon spin-independent interactions, with a lowest excluded cross section (90% C.L.) of cm at a dark matter mass of 30 GeV/.
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@article{arxiv.2107.13438,
title = {Dark Matter Search Results from the PandaX-4T Commissioning Run},
author = {Yue Meng and Zhou Wang and Yi Tao and Abdusalam Abdukerim and Zihao Bo and Wei Chen and Xun Chen and Yunhua Chen and Chen Cheng and Yunshan Cheng and Xiangyi Cui and Yingjie Fan and Deqing Fang and Changbo Fu and Mengting Fu and Lisheng Geng and Karl Giboni and Linhui Gu and Xuyuan Guo and Ke Han and Changda He and Jinrong He and Di Huang and Yanlin Huang and Zhou Huang and Ruquan Hou and Xiangdong Ji and Yonglin Ju and Chenxiang Li and Mingchuan Li and Shu Li and Shuaijie Li and Qing Lin and Jianglai Liu and Xiaoying Lu and Lingyin Luo and Wenbo Ma and Yugang Ma and Yajun Mao and Nasir Shaheed and Xuyang Ning and Ningchun Qi and Zhicheng Qian and Xiangxiang Ren and Changsong Shang and Guofang Shen and Lin Si and Wenliang Sun and Andi Tan and Anqing Wang and Meng Wang and Qiuhong Wang and Shaobo Wang and Siguang Wang and Wei Wang and Xiuli Wang and Mengmeng Wu and Weihao Wu and Jingkai Xia and Mengjiao Xiao and Xiang Xiao and Pengwei Xie and Binbin Yan and Xiyu Yan and Jijun Yang and Yong Yang and Chunxu Yu and Jumin Yuan and Ying Yuan and Dan Zhang and Minzhen Zhang and Peng Zhang and Tao Zhang and Li Zhao and Qibin Zheng and Jifang Zhou and Ning Zhou and Xiaopeng Zhou and Yong Zhou},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.13438},
year = {2022}
}
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