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Limits on WIMP-nucleon interactions with CsI(Tl) crystal detectors

The Korea Invisible Mass Search(KIMS) experiment presents new limits on WIMP-nucleon cross section using the data from an exposure of 3409 kgd taken with low background CsI(Tl) crystals at Yangyang underground laboratory. The most stringent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-19 H. S. Lee , H. C. Bhang , J. H. Choi , H. Dao , I. S. Hahn , M. J. Hwang , S. W. Jung , W. G. Kang , D. W. Kim , H. J. Kim , S. C. Kim , S. K. Kim , Y. D. Kim , J. W. Kwak , Y. J. Kwon , J. Lee , J. H. Lee , J. I. Lee , M. J. Lee , S. J. Lee , J. Li , X. Li , Y. J. Li , S. S. Myung , S. Ryu , J. H. So , Q. Yue , J. J. Zhu

Absorption of Fermionic Dark Matter in the PICO-60 C$_{3}$F$_{8}$ Bubble Chamber

Fermionic dark matter absorption on nuclear targets via neutral current interactions is explored using a non-relativistic effective field theory framework. An analysis of data from the PICO-60 C$_{3}$F$_{8}$ bubble chamber sets leading…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-06-26 E. Adams , B. Ali , R. Anderson-Dornan , I. J. Arnquist , M. Bai , D. Baxter , E. Behnke , B. Broerman , C. J. Chen , K. Clark , J. I. Collar , P. S. Cooper , D. Cranshaw , C. Cripe , M. Crisler , C. E. Dahl , M. Das , S. Das , S. Fallows , J. Farine , R. Filgas , A. García-Viltres , G. Giroux , O. Harris , H. Hawley-Herrera , T. Hillier , E. W. Hoppe , C. M. Jackson , M. Jin , C. B. Krauss , M. Laurin , I. Lawson , A. Leblanc , H. Leng , I. Levine , C. Licciardi , W. H. Lippincott , Q. Malin , P. Mitra , V. Monette , C. Moore , R. Neilson , A. J. Noble , H. Nozard , S. Pal , M. -C. Piro , S. Priya , C. Rethmeier , M. Robert , A. E. Robinson , J. Savoie , S. J. Sekula , A. Sonnenschein , N. Starinski , I. Štekl , M. Tripathi , E. Vázquez-Jáuregui , U. Wichoski , William Woodley , V. Zacek , J. Zhang

Search for neutrinos from annihilation of captured low-mass dark matter particles in the Sun by Super-Kamiokande

Super-Kamiokande (SK) can search for weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) by detecting neutrinos produced from WIMP annihilations occurring inside the Sun. In this analysis, we include neutrino events with interaction vertices in…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-03-18 Kamiokande Collaboration , K. Choi , K. Abe , Y. Haga , Y. Hayato , K. Iyogi , J. Kameda , Y. Kishimoto , M. Miura , S. Moriyama , M. Nakahata , Y. Nakano , S. Nakayama , H. Sekiya , M. Shiozawa , Y. Suzuki , A. Takeda , T. Tomura , R. A. Wendell , T. Irvine , 2 T. Kajita , I. Kametani , 2 K. Kaneyuki , K. P. Lee , Y. Nishimura , 2 K. Okumura , T. McLachlan , 2 L. Labarga , E. Kearns , J. L. Raaf , 4 J. L. Stone , L. R. Sulak , 4 S. Berkman , 5 H. A. Tanaka , 5 S. Tobayama , M. Goldhaber , G. Carminati , W. R. Kropp , S. Mine , A. Renshaw , M. B. Smy , H. W. Sobel , K. S. Ganezer , J. Hill , N. Hong , J. Y. Kim , I. T. Lim , T. Akiri , A. Himmel , K. Scholberg , C. W. Walter , T. Wongjirad , T. Ishizuka , S. Tasaka , J. S. Jang , J. G. Learned , S. Matsuno , S. N. Smith , T. Hasegawa , T. Ishida , T. Ishii , T. Kobayashi , T. Nakadaira , K. Nakamura , Y. Oyama , K. Sakashita , T. Sekiguchi , T. Tsukamoto , A. T. Suzuki , Y. Takeuchi , C. Bronner , S. Hirota , K. Huang , K. Ieki , M. Ikeda , T. Kikawa , A. Minamino , T. Nakaya , K. Suzuki , S. Takahashi , Y. Fukuda , Y. Itow , G. Mitsuka , P. Mijakowski , J. Hignight , J. Imber , C. K. Jung , C. Yanagisawa , H. Ishino , A. Kibayashi , Y. Koshio , T. Mori , M. Sakuda , T. Yano , Y. Kuno , R. Tacik , S. B. Kim , H. Okazawa , Y. Choi , K. Nishijima , M. Koshiba , Y. Totsuka , M. Yokoyama , K. Martens , Ll. Marti , M. R. Vagins , J. F. Martin , P. de Perio , A. Konaka , M. J. Wilking , S. Chen , Y. Zhang , R. J. Wilkes

Halo-independent bounds on the non-relativistic effective theory of WIMP-nucleon scattering from direct detection and neutrino observations

We combine experimental constraints from direct detection searches and from neutrino telescopes looking for WIMP annihilations in the Sun to derive halo-independent bounds on each of the 28 WIMP-proton and WIMP-neutron couplings of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-08 Sunghyun Kang , Arpan Kar , Stefano Scopel

Latest results of the EDELWEISS-II experiment

The EDELWEISS-II collaboration has performed a direct search for WIMP dark matter with an array of ten 400-g heat-and-ionization cryogenic detectors equipped with Inter-Digit electrodes for the rejection of near-surface events. Results from…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2011-06-09 Torrento-Coello , A. S

New Limits on Dark Matter from Super-Kamiokande

The signals observed at the direct detection experiments DAMA, CoGeNT and CRESST could be explained by light WIMPs with sizeable spin-independent cross sections with nucleons. The capture and subsequent annihilation of such particles in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-06-21 Rolf Kappl , Martin Wolfgang Winkler

Silicon Detector Dark Matter Results from the Final Exposure of CDMS II

We report results of a search for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPS) with the silicon detectors of the CDMS II experiment. This blind analysis of 140.2 kg-days of data taken between July 2007 and September 2008 revealed three…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2013-10-15 CDMS Collaboration , R. Agnese , Z. Ahmed , A. J. Anderson , S. Arrenberg , D. Balakishiyeva , R. Basu Thakur , D. A. Bauer , J. Billard , A. Borgland , D. Brandt , P. L. Brink , T. Bruch , R. Bunker , B. Cabrera , D. O. Caldwell , D. G. Cerdeno , H. Chagani , J. Cooley , B. Cornell , C. H. Crewdson , P. Cushman , M. Daal , F. Dejongh , E. Do Couto E Silva , T. Doughty , L. Esteban , S. Fallows , E. Figueroa-Feliciano , J. Filippini , J. Fox , M. Fritts , G. L. Godfrey , S. R. Golwala , J. Hall , R. H. Harris , S. A. Hertel , T. Hofer , D. Holmgren , L. Hsu , M. E. Huber , A. Jastram , O. Kamaev , B. Kara , M. H. Kelsey , A. Kennedy , P. Kim , M. Kiveni , K. Koch , M. Kos , S. W. Leman , B. Loer , E. Lopez Asamar , R. Mahapatra , V. Mandic , C. Martinez , K. A. McCarthy , N. Mirabolfathi , R. A. Moffatt , D. C. Moore , P. Nadeau , R. H. Nelson , K. Page , R. Partridge , M. Pepin , A. Phipps , K. Prasad , M. Pyle , H. Qiu , W. Rau , P. Redl , A. Reisetter , Y. Ricci , T. Saab , B. Sadoulet , J. Sander , K. Schneck , R. W. Schnee , S. Scorza , B. Serfass , B. Shank , D. Speller , K. M. Sundqvist , A. N. Villano , B. Welliver , D. H. Wright , S. Yellin , J. J. Yen , J. Yoo , B. A. Young , J. Zhang

Direct Detection Constraints on Dark Photon Dark Matter

Dark matter detectors built primarily to probe elastic scattering of WIMPs on nuclei are also precise probes of light, weakly coupled particles that may be absorbed by the detector material. In this paper, we derive constraints on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-07-23 Haipeng An , Maxim Pospelov , Josef Pradler , Adam Ritz

Solar and Atmospheric Neutrinos: Limitations for Direct Dark Matter Searches

In experiments for direct dark matter searches, neutrinos coherently scattering off nuclei can produce similar events as Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs). To reach sensitivities better than about 10^-10 pb for the elastic WIMP…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-09-24 A. Gütlein , W. Potzel , C. Ciemniak , F. von Feilitzsch , N. Haag , M. Hofmann , C. Isaila , T. Lachenmaier , J. -C. Lanfranchi , L. Oberauer , S. Pfister , S. Roth , M. von Sivers , R. Strauß , A. Zöller

Extending light WIMP searches to single scintillation photons in LUX

We present a novel analysis technique for liquid xenon time projection chambers that allows for a lower threshold by relying on events with a prompt scintillation signal consisting of single detected photons. The energy threshold of the LUX…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-19 D. S. Akerib , S. Alsum , H. M. Araújo , X. Bai , A. J. Bailey , J. Balajthy , A. Baxter , P. Beltrame , E. P. Bernard , A. Bernstein , T. P. Biesiadzinski , E. M. Boulton , B. Boxer , P. Brás , S. Burdin , D. Byram , S. B. Cahn , M. C. Carmona-Benitez , C. Chan , A. A. Chiller , C. Chiller , A. Currie , J. E. Cutter , L. de Viveiros , A. Dobi , J. E. Y. Dobson , E. Druszkiewicz , B. N. Edwards , C. H. Faham , S. R. Fallon , A. Fan , S. Fiorucci , R. J. Gaitskell , V. M. Gehman , J. Genovesi , C. Ghag , K. R. Gibson , M. G. D. Gilchriese , E. Grace , C. Gwilliam , C. R. Hall , M. Hanhardt , S. J. Haselschwardt , S. A. Hertel , D. P. Hogan , M. Horn , D. Q. Huang , C. M. Ignarra , R. G. Jacobsen , O. Jahangir , W. Ji , K. Kamdin , K. Kazka , D. Khaitan , R. Knoche , E. V. Korolkova , S. Kravitz , V. A. Kudryavtsev , N. A. Larsen , E. Leason , C. Lee , B. G. Lenardo , K. T. Lesko , C. Levy , J. Liao , J. Lin , A. Lindote , M. I. Lopes , B. López-Paredes , A. Manalaysay , R. L. Mannino , N. Marangou , M. F. Marzioni , D. N. McKinsey , D. M. Mei , J. Mock , M. Moongweluwan , J. A. Morad , A. St. J. Murphy , A. Naylor , C. Nehrkorn , H. N. Nelson , F. Neves , A. Nilima , K. O'Sullivan , K. C. Oliver-Mallory , K. J. Palladino , E. K. Pease , L. Reichhart , Q. Riffard , G. R. C. Rischbieter , P. Rossiter , S. Shaw , T. A. Shutt , C. Silva , M. Solmaz , V. N. Solovov , P. Sorensen , S. Stephenson , T. J. Sumner , M. Szydagis , D. J. Taylor , R. Taylor , W. C. Taylor , B. P. Tennyson , P. A. Terman , D. R. Tiedt , W. H. To , M. Tripathi , L. Tvrznikova , U. Utku , S. Uvarov , A. Vacheret , V. Velan , J. R. Verbus , R. C. Webb , J. T. White , T. J. Whitis , M. S. Witherell , F. L. H. Wolfs , D. Woodward , J. Xu , K. Yazdani , S. K. Young , C. Zhang

Inelastic dark matter with spin-dependent couplings to protons and large modulation fractions in DAMA

We discuss a scenario where the DAMA modulation effect is explained by a Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP) which upscatters inelastically to a heavier state and predominantly couples to the spin of protons. In this scenario…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-26 Stefano Scopel , KookHyun Yoon

Ultra-cold WIMPs: relics of non-standard pre-BBN cosmologies

Weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) are one of very few probes of cosmology before Big Bang nucleosynthesis (BBN). We point out that in scenarios in which the Universe evolves in a non-standard manner during and after WIMP kinetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Graciela B. Gelmini , Paolo Gondolo

Light dark matter search with DarkSide-50

We present the latest results from the search for light dark matter particle interactions with the DarkSide-50 dual-phase liquid argon time projection chamber. This analysis, based on the ionization signal only, improves the existing limits…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-07-18 D. Franco

Search for An Annual Modulation in Three Years of CoGeNT Dark Matter Detector Data

Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) are well-established dark matter candidates. WIMP interactions with sensitive detectors are expected to display a characteristic annual modulation in rate. We release a dataset spanning 3.4 years…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-15 C. E. Aalseth , P. S. Barbeau , J. Colaresi , J. I. Collar , J. Diaz Leon , J. E. Fast , N. E. Fields , T. W. Hossbach , A. Knecht , M. S. Kos , M. G. Marino , H. S. Miley , M. L. Miller , J. L. Orrell , K. M. Yocum

Limits on spin-dependent WIMP-nucleon cross sections from 225 live days of XENON100 data

We present new experimental constraints on the elastic, spin-dependent WIMP-nucleon cross section using recent data from the XENON100 experiment, operated in the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Italy. An analysis of 224.6 live days x…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-09 XENON100 collaboration , E. Aprile , M. Alfonsi , K. Arisaka , F. Arneodo , C. Balan , L. Baudis , B. Bauermeister , A. Behrens , P. Beltrame , K. Bokeloh , A. Brown , E. Brown , G. Bruno , R. Budnik , J. M. R. Cardoso , W. -T. Chen , B. Choi , A. P. Colijn , H. Contreras , J. P. Cussonneau , M. P. Decowski , E. Duchovni , S. Fattori , A. D. Ferella , W. Fulgione , F. Gao , M. Garbini , C. Ghag , K. -L. Giboni , L. W. Goetzke , C. Grignon , E. Gross , W. Hampel , F. Kaether , A. Kish , J. Lamblin , H. Landsman , R. F. Lang , M. Le Calloch , D. Lellouch , C. Levy , K. E. Lim , Q. Lin , S. Lindemann , M. Lindner , J. A. M. Lopes , K. Lung , T. Marrodan Undagoitia , F. V. Massoli , A. J. Melgarejo Fernandez , Y. Meng , M. Messina , A. Molinario , K. Ni , U. Oberlack , S. E. A. Orrigo , E. Pantic , R. Persiani , G. Plante , N. Priel , A. Rizzo , S. Rosendahl , J. M. F. dos Santos , G. Sartorelli , J. Schreiner , M. Schumann , L. Scotto Lavina , P. R. Scovell , M. Selvi , P. Shagin , H. Simgen , A. Teymourian , D. Thers , O. Vitells , H. Wang , M. Weber , C. Weinheimer

Non-thermal WIMP Production from Higher Order Moduli Decay

In a non-standard cosmological scenario, heavy, long-lived particles, which we call moduli, dominate the energy density prior to Big Bang Nucleosynthesis. Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) may be produced non-thermally from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-13 Amitayus Banik , Manuel Drees

Detection chamber for search of low Mass WIMP and solar axions

A chamber for direct detection of WIMPs with masses < 10 GeV/c2 and solar axions is developed. The chamber is filled with a gas mixture of H2 +3ppm TMAE (1,5,10 bar), or D2 + 3ppm TMAE. These gas fillings make it possible to suppress an…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-03-21 B. M. Ovchinnikov , V. V. Parusov

A search for low-mass WIMPs with EDELWEISS-II heat-and-ionization detectors

We report on a search for low-energy (E < 20 keV) WIMP-induced nuclear recoils using data collected in 2009 - 2010 by EDELWEISS from four germanium detectors equipped with thermal sensors and an electrode design (ID) which allows to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-09-28 EDELWEISS Collaboration , E. Armengaud , C. Augier , A. Benoît , L. Bergé , T. Bergmann , J. Blümer , A. Broniatowski , V. Brudanin , B. Censier , M. Chapellier , F. Charlieux , F. Couëdo , P. Coulter , G. A. Cox , J. Domange , A. A. Drillien , L. Dumoulin , K. Eitel , D. Filosofov , N. Fourches , J. Gascon , G. Gerbier , J. Gironnet , M. Gros , G. Heuermann , S. Henry , S. Hervé , A. Juillard , M. Kleifges , H. Kluck , V. Kozlov , H. Kraus , V. A. Kudryavtsev , H. Le Sueur , P. Loaiza , S. Marnieros , A. Menshikov , X. -F. Navick , C. Nones , E. Olivieri , P. Pari , B. Paul , M. Robinson , S. Rozov , V. Sanglard , B. Schmidt , B. Siebenborn , D. Tcherniakhovski , A. S. Torrento-Coello , L. Vagneron , R. J. Walker , M. Weber , E. Yakushev , X. Zhang

Effective Models for Dark Matter at the International Linear Collider

Weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) form a promising solution to the dark matter problem and many experiments are now searching for these particles. Using effective field theories to describe the interaction of the WIMP with the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-08-22 Daniel Schmeier

Search for WIMP-$^{129}$Xe inelastic scattering with particle identification in XMASS-I

A search for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) was conducted with the single-phase liquid-xenon detector XMASS through inelastic scattering in which $^{129}$Xe nuclei were excited, using an exposure ($\rm 327\; kg \times 800.0 \;…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-20 XMASS Collaboration , T. Suzuki , K. Abe , K. Hiraide , K. Ichimura , Y. Kishimoto , K. Kobayashi , M. Kobayashi , S. Moriyama , M. Nakahata , H. Ogawa , K. Sato , H. Sekiya , A. Takeda , S. Tasaka , M. Yamashita , B. S. Yang , N. Y. Kim , Y. D. Kim , Y. Itow , K. Kanzawa , K. Masuda , K. Martens , Y. Suzuki , B. D. Xu , K. Miuchi , N. Oka , Y. Takeuchi , Y. H. Kim , K. B. Lee , M. K. Lee , Y. Fukuda , M. Miyasaka , K. Nishijima , K. Fushimi , G. Kanzaki , S. Nakamura