Limits on spin-dependent WIMP-nucleon cross-sections from the XENON10 experiment
Abstract
XENON10 is an experiment to directly detect weakly interacting massive particle (WIMPs), which may comprise the bulk of the non-baryonic dark matter in our Universe. We report new results for spin-dependent WIMP-nucleon interactions with 129-Xe and 131-Xe from 58.6 live-days of operation at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS). Based on the non-observation of a WIMP signal in 5.4 kg of fiducial liquid xenon mass, we exclude previously unexplored regions in the theoretically allowed parameter space for neutralinos. We also exclude a heavy Majorana neutrino with a mass in the range of 10 GeV -2 TeV as a dark matter candidate under standard assumptions for its density and distribution in the galactic halo.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0805.2939,
title = {Limits on spin-dependent WIMP-nucleon cross-sections from the XENON10 experiment},
author = {J. Angle and E. Aprile and F. Arneodo and L. Baudis and A. Bernstein and A. Bolozdynya and P. Brusov and L. C. C. Coelho and C. E. Dahl and L. DeViveiros and A. D. Ferella and L. M. P. Fernandes and S. Fiorucci and R. J. Gaitskell and K. L. Giboni and R. Gomez and R. Hasty and L. Kastens and J. Kwong and J. A. M. Lopes and N. Madden and A. Manalaysay and A. Manzur and D. N. McKinsey and M. E. Monzani and K. Ni and U. Oberlack and J. Orboeck and G. Plante and R. Santorelli and J. M. F. dos Santos and P. Shagin and T. Shutt and P. Sorensen and S. Schulte and C. Winant and M. Yamashita},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0805.2939},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
4 pages, 4 figures; final version published in PRL (added DAMA region to Figure 1)