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Limits on Axion Couplings from the first 80-day data of PandaX-II Experiment

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2017-11-08 v2 Solar and Stellar Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We report new searches for the solar axions and galactic axion-like dark matter particles, using the first low-background data from PandaX-II experiment at China Jinping Underground Laboratory, corresponding to a total exposure of about 2.7×1042.7\times 10^4 kg\cdotday. No solar axion or galactic axion-like dark matter particle candidate has been identified. The upper limit on the axion-electron coupling (gAeg_{Ae}) from the solar flux is found to be about 4.35×10124.35 \times 10^{-12} in mass range from 10510^{-5} to 1 keV/c2c^2 with 90\% confidence level, similar to the recent LUX result. We also report a new best limit from the 57^{57}Fe de-excitation. On the other hand, the upper limit from the galactic axions is on the order of 101310^{-13} in the mass range from 1 keV/c2c^2 to 10 keV/c2c^2 with 90\% confidence level, slightly improved compared with the LUX.

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@article{arxiv.1707.07921,
  title  = {Limits on Axion Couplings from the first 80-day data of PandaX-II Experiment},
  author = {Changbo Fu and Xiaopeng Zhou and Xun Chen and Yunhua Chen and Xiangyi Cui and Deqing Fang and Karl Giboni and Franco Giuliani and Ke Han and Xingtao Huang and Xiangdong Ji and Yonglin Ju and Siao Lei and Shaoli Li and Huaxuan Liu and Jianglai Liu and Yugang Ma and Yajun Mao and Xiangxiang Ren and Andi Tan and Hongwei Wang and Jimin Wang and Meng Wang and Qiuhong Wang and Siguang Wang and Xuming Wang and Zhou Wang and Shiyong Wu and Mengjiao Xiao and Pengwei Xie and Binbin Yan and Yong Yang and Jianfeng Yue and Hongguang Zhang and Tao Zhang and Li Zhao and Ning Zhou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.07921},
  year   = {2017}
}

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5 pages, 4 figures