Probing the Scalar WIMP-Pion Coupling with the first LUX-ZEPLIN data
High Energy Physics - Experiment
2024-09-17 v1
Abstract
Weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) may interact with a virtual pion that is exchanged between nucleons. This interaction channel is important to consider in models where the spin-independent isoscalar channel is suppressed. Using data from the first science run of the LUX-ZEPLIN dark matter experiment, containing 60 live days of data in a 5.5~tonne fiducial mass of liquid xenon, we report the results on a search for WIMP-pion interactions. We observe no significant excess and set an upper limit of ~cm at a 90\% confidence level for a WIMP mass of 33~GeV/c for this interaction.
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@article{arxiv.2406.02441,
title = {Probing the Scalar WIMP-Pion Coupling with the first LUX-ZEPLIN data},
author = {J. Aalbers and D. S. Akerib and A. K. Al Musalhi and F. Alder and C. S. Amarasinghe and A. Ames and T. J. Anderson and N. Angelides and H. M. Araújo and J. E. Armstrong and M. Arthurs and A. Baker and S. Balashov and J. Bang and E. E. Barillier and J. W. Bargemann and K. Beattie and T. Benson and A. Bhatti and A. Biekert and T. P. Biesiadzinski and H. J. Birch and E. J. Bishop and G. M. Blockinger and B. Boxer and C. A. J. Brew and P. Brás and S. Burdin and M. Buuck and M. C. Carmona-Benitez and M. Carter and A. Chawla and H. Chen and J. J. Cherwinka and Y. T. Chin and N. I. Chott and M. V. Converse and A. Cottle and G. Cox and D. Curran and C. E. Dahl and A. David and J. Delgaudio and S. Dey and L. deViveiros and L. DiFelice and C. Ding and J. E. Y. Dobson and E. Druszkiewicz and S. R. Eriksen and A. Fan and N. M. Fearon and S. Fiorucci and H. Flaecher and E. D. Fraser and T. M. A. Fruth and R. J. Gaitskell and A. Geffre and J. Genovesi and C. Ghag and R. Gibbons and S. Gokhale and J. Green and M. G. D. vanderGrinten and J. J. Haiston and C. R. Hall and S. Han and E. Hartigan-O'Connor and S. J. Haselschwardt and M. A. Hernandez and S. A. Hertel and G. Heuermann and G. J. Homenides and M. Horn and D. Q. Huang and D. Hunt and E. Jacquet and R. S. James and J. Johnson and A. C. Kaboth and A. C. Kamaha and M. Kannichankandy and D. Khaitan and A. Khazov and I. Khurana and J. DKim and J. Kim and J. Kingston and R. Kirk and D. Kodroff and L. Korley and E. V. Korolkova and H. Kraus and S. Kravitz and L. Kreczko and V. A. Kudryavtsev and D. S. Leonard and K. T. Lesko and C. Levy and J. Lin and A. Lindote and R. Linehan and W. H. Lippincott and M. I. Lopes and W. Lorenzon and C. Lu and S. Luitz and P. A. Majewski and A. Manalaysay and R. L. Mannino and C. Maupin and M. E. McCarthy and G. McDowell and D. N. McKinsey and J. McLaughlin and J. B. McLaughlin and R. McMonigle and E. H. Miller and E. Mizrachi and A. Monte and M. E. Monzani and J. D. Morales Mendoza and E. Morrison and B. J. Mount and M. Murdy and A. St. J. Murphy and A. Naylor and H. N. Nelson and F. Neves and A. Nguyen and J. A. Nikoleyczik and I. Olcina and K. C. Oliver-Mallory and J. Orpwood and K. J. Palladino and J. Palmer and N. J. Pannifer and N. Parveen and S. J. Patton and B. Penning and G. Pereira and E. Perry and T. Pershing and A. Piepke and Y. Qie and J. Reichenbacher and C. A. Rhyne and Q. Riffard and G. R. C. Rischbieter and H. S. Riyat and R. Rosero and T. Rushton and D. Rynders and D. Santone and A. B. M. R. Sazzad and R. W. Schnee and S. Shaw and T. Shutt and J. J. Silk and C. Silva and G. Sinev and J. Siniscalco and R. Smith and V. N. Solovov and P. Sorensen and J. Soria and I. Stancu and A. Stevens and K. Stifter and B. Suerfu and T. J. Sumner and M. Szydagis and W. C. Taylor and D. R. Tiedt and M. Timalsina and Z. Tong and D. R. Tovey and J. Tranter and M. Trask and M. Tripathi and D. R. Tronstad and A. Vacheret and A. C. Vaitkus and O. Valentino and V. Velan and A. Wang and J. J. Wang and Y. Wang and J. R. Watson and R. C. Webb and L. Weeldreyer and T. J. Whitis and M. Williams and W. J. Wisniewski and F. L. H. Wolfs and S. Woodford and D. Woodward and C. J. Wright and Q. Xia and X. Xiang and J. Xu and M. Yeh and E. A. Zweig},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.02441},
year = {2024}
}