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Exotic dark matter search with the Majorana Demonstrator

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2024-07-30 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

With excellent energy resolution and ultra-low level radiogenic backgrounds, the high-purity germanium detectors in the Majorana Demonstrator enable searches for several classes of exotic dark matter (DM) models. In this work, we report new experimental limits on keV-scale sterile neutrino DM via the transition magnetic moment from conversion to active neutrinos, νsνa\nu_s \rightarrow \nu_a. We report new limits on fermionic dark matter absorption (χ+Aν+A\chi + A \rightarrow \nu + A) and sub-GeV DM-nucleus 3\rightarrow2 scattering (χ+χ+Aϕ+A\chi + \chi + A \rightarrow \phi + A), and new exclusion limits for bosonic dark matter (axionlike particles and dark photons). These searches utilize the (1--100)-keV low energy region of a 37.5-kg y exposure collected by the Demonstrator between May 2016 and November 2019, using a set of 76^{76}Ge-enriched detectors whose surface exposure time was carefully controlled, resulting in extremely low levels of cosmogenic activation.

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@article{arxiv.2206.10638,
  title  = {Exotic dark matter search with the Majorana Demonstrator},
  author = {I. J. Arnquist and F. T. Avignone and A. S. Barabash and C. J. Barton and K. H. Bhimani and E. Blalock and B. Bos and M. Busch and M. Buuck and T. S. Caldwell and Y-D. Chan and C. D. Christofferson and P. -H. Chu and M. L. Clark and C. Cuesta and J. A. Detwiler and Yu. Efremenko and H. Ejiri and S. R. Elliott and G. K. Giovanetti and M. P. Green and J. Gruszko and I. S. Guinn and V. E. Guiseppe and C. R. Haufe and R. Henning and D. Hervas Aguilar and E. W. Hoppe and A. Hostiuc and M. F. Kidd and I. Kim and R. T. Kouzes and T. E. Lannen and A. Li and A. M. Lopez and J. M. López-Castaño and E. L. Martin and R. D. Martin and R. Massarczyk and S. J. Meijer and S. Mertens and T. K. Oli and G. Othman and L. S. Paudel and W. Pettus and A. W. P. Poon and D. C. Radford and A. L. Reine and K. Rielage and N. W. Ruof and D. C. Schaper and D. Tedeschi and R. L. Varner and S. Vasilyev and J. F. Wilkerson and C. Wiseman and W. Xu and C. -H. Yu and B. X. Zhu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.10638},
  year   = {2024}
}

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7 pages, 6 figures