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XENON1T Dark Matter Data Analysis: Signal Reconstruction, Calibration and Event Selection

The XENON1T experiment at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso is the most sensitive direct detection experiment for dark matter in the form of weakly interacting particles (WIMPs) with masses above $6\,$GeV/$c^2$ scattering off nuclei.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-11-06 E. Aprile , J. Aalbers , F. Agostini , M. Alfonsi , L. Althueser , F. D. Amaro , V. C. Antochi , F. Arneodo , L. Baudis , B. Bauermeister , L. Bellagamba , M. L. Benabderrahmane , T. Berger , P. A. Breur , A. Brown , E. Brown , S. Bruenner , G. Bruno , R. Budnik , C. Capelli , J. M. R. Cardoso , D. Cichon , D. Coderre , A. P. Colijn , J. Conrad , J. P. Cussonneau , M. P. Decowski , P. de Perio , P. Di Gangi , A. Di Giovanni , S. Diglio , A. Elykov , G. Eurin , J. Fei , A. D. Ferella , A. Fieguth , W. Fulgione , A. Gallo Rosso , M. Galloway , F. Gao , M. Garbini , L. Grandi , Z. Greene , C. Hasterok , E. Hogenbirk , J. Howlett , M. Iacovacci , R. Itay , F. Joerg , S. Kazama , A. Kish , G. Koltman , A. Kopec , H. Landsman , R. F. Lang , L. Levinson , Q. Lin , S. Lindemann , M. Lindner , F. Lombardi , J. A. M. Lopes , E. López Fune , C. Macolino , J. Mahlstedt , A. Manfredini , F. Marignetti , T. Marrodán Undagoitia , J. Masbou , D. Masson , S. Mastroianni , M. Messina , K. Micheneau , K. Miller , A. Molinario , K. Morå , Y. Mosbacher , M. Murra , J. Naganoma , K. Ni , U. Oberlack , K. Odgers , B. Pelssers , R. Peres , F. Piastra , J. Pienaar , V. Pizzella , G. Plante , R. Podviianiuk , H. Qiu , D. Ramírez García , S. Reichard , B. Riedel , A. Rizzo , A. Rocchetti , N. Rupp , J. M. F. dos Santos , G. Sartorelli , N. N. Šarčević , M. Scheibelhut , S. Schindler , J. Schreiner , D. Schulte , M. Schumann , L. Scotto Lavina , M. Selvi , P. Shagin , E. Shockley , M. Silva , H. Simgen , C. Therreau , D. Thers , F. Toschi , G. Trinchero , C. Tunnell , N. Upole , M. Vargas , O. Wack , H. Wang , Z. Wang , Y. Wei , C. Weinheimer , D. Wenz , C. Wittweg , J. Wulf , J. Ye , Y. Zhang , T. Zhu , J. P. Zopounidis

Spin-dependent constraints on blind spots for thermal singlino-higgsino dark matter with(out) light singlets

The LUX experiment has recently set very strong constraints on spin-independent interactions of WIMP with nuclei. These null results can be accommodated in NMSSM provided that the effective spin-independent coupling of the LSP to nucleons…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-02 Marcin Badziak , Marek Olechowski , Paweł Szczerbiak

MSSM WIMPs-nucleon cross section for E$_\chi <$ 500 GeV

Among dark-matter candidates are the WIMPs (Weekly Interacting Massive Particles). Low-threshold detectors could directly detect dark-matter by measuring the energy deposited by the particles. In this work we examine the cross section for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-19 K. Fushimi , M. E. Mosquera , O. Civitarese

Results from the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search experiment

The Cryogenic Dark Matter Search experiment uses low-temperature solid-state detectors to seek Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) and has the world's best exclusion limit on the spin-independent WIMP-nucleon cross section. The…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Oleg Kamaev

Dark Matter Results from First 98.7-day Data of PandaX-II Experiment

We report the WIMP dark matter search results using the first physics-run data of the PandaX-II 500 kg liquid xenon dual-phase time-projection chamber, operating at the China JinPing Underground Laboratory. No dark matter candidate is…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-09-21 II Collaboration , Andi Tan , Mengjiao Xiao , Xiangyi Cui , Xun Chen , Yunhua Chen , Deqing Fang , Changbo Fu , Karl Giboni , Franco Giuliani , Haowei Gong , Shouyang Hu , Xingtao Huang , Xiangdong Ji , Yonglin Ju , Siao Lei , Shaoli Li , Xiaomei Li , Xinglong Li , Hao Liang , Qing Lin , Huaxuan Liu , Jianglai Liu , Wolfgang Lorenzon , Yugang Ma , Yajun Mao , Kaixuan Ni , Xiangxiang Ren , Michael Schubnell , Manbin Shen , Fang Shi , Hongwei Wang , Jiming Wang , Meng Wang , Qiuhong Wang , Siguang Wang , Xuming Wang , Zhou Wang , Shiyong Wu , Xiang Xiao , Pengwei Xie , Binbin Yan , Yong Yang , Jianfeng Yue , Xionghui Zeng , Hongguang Zhang , Hua Zhang , Huanqiao Zhang , Tao Zhang , Li Zhao , Jing Zhou , Ning Zhou , Xiaopeng Zhou

Searches for axions with the EDELWEISS experiment

The EDELWEISS experiment primarily aims at the direct detection of WIMPs using germanium bolometers. It is also sensitive to the low-energy electron recoils that would be induced by axions. We present new constraints on the couplings of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-14 Thibault de Boissière

Discriminating WIMP-nucleus response functions in present and future XENON-like direct detection experiments

The standard interpretation of direct-detection limits on dark matter involves particular assumptions of the underlying WIMP-nucleus interaction, such as, in the simplest case, the choice of a Helm form factor that phenomenologically…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-06-06 A. Fieguth , M. Hoferichter , P. Klos , J. Menéndez , A. Schwenk , C. Weinheimer

First Results of the EDELWEISS WIMP Search using a 320 g Heat-and-Ionization Ge Detector

The EDELWEISS collaboration has performed a direct search for WIMP dark matter using a 320 g heat-and-ionization cryogenic Ge detector operated in a low-background environment in the Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane. No nuclear recoils are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-28 A. Benoit , L. Berge , A. Broniatowski , B. Chambon , M. Chapellier , G. Chardin , P. Charvin , M. De Jesus , P. Di Stefano , D. Drain , L. Dumoulin , J. Gascon , G. Gerbier , C. Goldbach , M. Goyot , M. Gros , J. P. Hadjout , A. Juillard , A. de Lesquen , M. Loidl , J. Mallet , S. Marnieros , O. Martineau , N. Mirabolfathi , L. Mosca , L. Miramonti , X. -F. Navick , G. Nollez , P. Pari , M. Stern , L. Vagneron

Constraints on Bosonic Dark Matter with Low Threshold Germanium Detector at Kuo-Sheng Reactor Neutrino Laboratory

We report results from searches of pseudoscalar and vector bosonic super-weakly interacting massive particles (super-WIMP) in the TEXONO experiment at the Kuo-Sheng Nuclear Power Station, using 314.15 kg days of data from $n$-type…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-02-27 Manoj Kumar Singh , Lakhwinder Singh , Mehmet Agartioglu , Vivek Sharma , Venktesh Singh , Henry Tsz-king Wong

DAMA and WIMP dark matter

We study whether spin-independent scattering of weakly-interacting massive particles (WIMPs) with nuclei can account for the annual modulation signal reported by DAMA. We consider both elastic and inelastic scattering processes. We find…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-05-29 Frank Petriello , Kathryn M. Zurek

LUX likelihood and limits on spin-independent and spin-dependent WIMP couplings with LUXCalc

We present LUXCalc, a new utility for calculating likelihoods and deriving WIMP-nucleon coupling limits from the recent results of the LUX direct search dark matter experiment. After a brief review of WIMP-nucleon scattering, we derive LUX…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-12-02 Christopher Savage , Andre Scaffidi , Martin White , Anthony G. Williams

Axion searches with the EDELWEISS-II experiment

We present new constraints on the couplings of axions and more generic axion-like particles using data from the EDELWEISS-II experiment. The EDELWEISS experiment, located at the Underground Laboratory of Modane, primarily aims at the direct…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-01 E. Armengaud , Q. Arnaud , C. Augier , A. Benoit , A. Benoit , L. Bergé , T. Bergmann , J. Blümer , A. Broniatowski , V. Brudanin , P. Camus , A. Cazes , B. Censier , M. Chapellier , F. Charlieux , F. Couëdo , P. Coulter , G. A. Cox , T. de Boissière , M. De Jesus , Y. Dolgorouky , A. A. Drillien , L. Dumoulin , K. Eitel , D. Filosofov , N. Fourches , J. Gascon , G. Gerbier , M. Gros , L. Hehn , S. Henry , S. Hervé , G. Heuermann , N. Holtzer , V. Humbert , A. Juillard , C. Kéfélian , M. Kleifges , H. Kluck , V. Kozlov , H. Kraus , V. A. Kudryavtsev , H. Le Sueur , M. Mancuso , C. Marrache-Kikuchi , S. Marnieros , A. Menshikov , X-F. Navick , C. Nones , E. Olivieri , P. Pari , B. Paul , M. C. Piro , O. Rigaut , M. Robinson , S. Rozov , V. Sanglard , B. Schmidt , B. Siebenborn , D. Tcherniakhovski , M. Tenconi , L. Vagneron , R. J. Walker , M. Weber , E. Yakushev , X. Zhang

Analysis of the XENON100 Dark Matter Search Data

The XENON100 experiment, situated in the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, aims at the direct detection of dark matter in the form of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), based on their interactions with xenon nuclei in an ultra…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-06 The XENON100 Collaboration , E. Aprile , M. Alfonsi , K. Arisaka , F. Arneodo , C. Balan , L. Baudis , A. Behrens , P. Beltrame , K. Bokeloh , E. Brown , G. Bruno , R. Budnik , J. M. R. Cardoso , W. -T. Chen , B. Choi , D. B. Cline , H. Contreras , J. P. Cussonneau , M. P. Decowski , E. Duchovni , S. Fattori , A. D. Ferella , W. Fulgione , F. Gao , M. Garbini , K. -L. Giboni , L. W. Goetzke , C. Grignon , E. Gross , W. Hampel , A. Kish , J. Lamblin , H. Landsman , R. F. Lang , M. Le Calloch , C. Levy , K. E. Lim , Q. Lin , S. Lindemann , M. Lindner , J. A. M. Lopes , K. Lung , T. Marrodan Undagoitia , F. V. Massoli , Y. Mei , A. J. Melgarejo Fernandez , Y. Meng , A. Molinario , E. Nativ , 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

Final Analysis and Results of the Phase II SIMPLE Dark Matter Search

We report the final results of the Phase II SIMPLE measurements, comprising two run stages of 15 superheated droplet detectors each, the second stage including an improved neutron shielding. The analyses includes a refined signal analysis,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 M. Felizardo , T. A. Girard , T. Morlat , A. C. Fernandes , A. R. Ramos , J. G. Marques , M. Auguste , D. Boyer , A. Cavaillou , J. Poupeney , C. Sudre , J. Puibasset , H. S. Miley , R. F. Payne , F. P. Carvalho , M. I. Prudêncio , R. Marques

Effects of Residue Background Events in Direct Dark Matter Detection Experiments on the Estimation of the Spin-Independent WIMP-Nucleon Coupling

In our work on the development of a model-independent data analysis method for estimating the spin-independent (SI) scalar coupling of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) on nucleons by using measured recoil energies from direct…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-19 Chung-Lin Shan

The XENON Dark Matter Search Experiment

The XENON experiment aims at the direct detection of dark matter in the form of WIMPs (Weakly Interacting Massive Particles) via their elastic scattering off Xe nuclei. A fiducial mass of 1000 kg, distributed in ten independent liquid xenon…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. Aprile , K. L. Giboni , P. Majewski , K. Ni , M. Yamashita , R. Gaitskell , P. Sorensen , L. DeViveiros , L. Baudis , A. Bernstein , C. Hagmann , C. Winant , T. Shutt , J. Kwong , U. Oberlack , D. McKinsey , R. Hasty

Search for Bosonic Super-WIMP Interactions with the XENON100 Experiment

We present results of searches for vector and pseudo-scalar bosonic super-WIMPs, which are dark matter candidates with masses at the keV-scale, with the XENON100 experiment. XENON100 is a dual-phase xenon time projection chamber operated at…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-13 XENON collaboration , E. Aprile , J. Aalbers , F. Agostini , M. Alfonsi , L. Althueser , F. D. Amaro , M. Anthony , F. Arneodo , P. Barrow , L. Baudis , B. Bauermeister , M. L. Benabderrahmane , T. Berger , P. A. Breur , A. Brown , A. Brown , E. Brown , S. Bruenner , G. Bruno , R. Budnik , Bütikofer , J. Calven , C. Capelli , J. M. R. Cardoso , D. Cichon , D. Coderre , A. P. Colijn , J. Conrad , J. P. Cussonneau , M. P. Decowski , P. de Perio , P. Di Gangi , A. Di Giovanni , S. Diglio , G. Eurin , J. Fei , A. D. Ferella , A. Fieguth , W. Fulgione , A. Gallo Rosso , M. Galloway , F. Gao , M. Garbini , C. Geis , L. W. Goetzke , Z. Greene , C. Grignon , C. Hasterok , E. Hogenbirk , J. Howlett , R. Itay , B. Kaminsky , S. Kazama , G. Kessler , A. Kish , H. Landsman , R. F. Lang , D. Lellouch , L. Levinson , Q. Lin , S. Lindemann , M. Lindner , F. Lombardi , J. A. M. Lopes , A. Manfredini , I. Maris , T. Marrodán Undagoitia , J. Masbou , F. V. Massoli , D. Masson , D. Mayani , M. Messina , K. Micheneau , A. Molinario , K. Morå , M. Murra , J. Naganoma , K. Ni , U. Oberlack , P. Pakarha , B. Pelssers , R. Persiani , F. Piastra , J. Pienaar , V. Pizzella , M. -C. Piro , G. Plante , N. Priel , D. Ramírez García , L. Rauch , S. Reichard , C. Reuter , A. Rizzo , N. Rupp , J. M. F. dos Santos , G. Sartorelli , M. Scheibelhut , S. Schindler , J. Schreiner , M. Schumann , L. Scotto Lavina , M. Selvi , P. Shagin , M. Silva , H. Simgen , M. v. Sivers , A. Stein , D. Thers , A. Tiseni , G. Trinchero , C. Tunnell , M. Vargas , H. Wang , Z. Wang , Y. Wei , C. Weinheimer , C. Wittweg , J. Wulf , J. Ye , Y. Zhang , T. Zhu

Dark Matter Results From 54-Ton-Day Exposure of PandaX-II Experiment

We report a new search of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) using the combined low background data sets in 2016 and 2017 from the PandaX-II experiment in China. The latest data set contains a new exposure of 77.1 live day, with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-08 II Collaboration , Xiangyi Cui , Abdusalam Abdukerim , Wei Chen , Xun Chen , Yunhua Chen , Binbin Dong , Deqing Fang , Changbo Fu , Karl Giboni , Franco Giuliani , Linhui Gu , Yikun Gu , Xuyuan Guo , Zhifan Guo , Ke Han , Changda He , Di Huang , Shengming He , Xingtao Huang , Zhou Huang , Xiangdong Ji , Yonglin Ju , Shaoli Li , Yao Li , Heng Lin , Huaxuan Liu , Jianglai Liu , Yugang Ma , Yajun Mao , Kaixiang Ni , Jinhua Ning , Xiangxiang Ren , Fang Shi , Andi Tan , Cheng Wang , Hongwei Wang , Meng Wang , Qiuhong Wang , Siguang Wang , Xiuli Wang , Xuming Wang , Qinyu Wu , Shiyong Wu , Mengjiao Xiao , Pengwei Xie , Binbin Yan , Yong Yang , Jianfeng Yue , Dan Zhang , Hongguang Zhang , Tao Zhang , Tianqi Zhang , Li Zhao , Jifang Zhou , Ning Zhou , Xiaopeng Zhou

Dark Matter at Boulby Mine

The Boulby Dark Matter Collaboration (BDMC) is running a WIMP Dark Matter research programme in the underground laboratory of Boulby Mine. The two axes of the programme are based on (1) liquid Xenon (LXe) as the WIMP target and (2)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 R. Luscher

A search for new physics in low-energy electron recoils from the first LZ exposure

The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment is a dark matter detector centered on a dual-phase xenon time projection chamber. We report searches for new physics appearing through few-keV-scale electron recoils, using the experiment's first exposure of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-06-06 The LZ Collaboration , J. Aalbers , D. S. Akerib , A. K. Al Musalhi , F. Alder , C. S. Amarasinghe , A. Ames , T. J. Anderson , N. Angelides , H. M. Araújo , J. E. Armstrong , M. Arthurs , A. Baker , S. Balashov , J. Bang , J. W. Bargemann , A. Baxter , K. Beattie , P. Beltrame , T. Benson , A. Bhatti , A. Biekert , T. P. Biesiadzinski , H. J. Birch , G. M. Blockinger , B. Boxer , C. A. J. Brew , P. Brás , S. Burdin , M. Buuck , M. C. Carmona-Benitez , C. Chan , A. Chawla , H. Chen , J. J. Cherwinka , N. I. Chott , M. V. Converse , A. Cottle , G. Cox , D. Curran , C. E. Dahl , A. David , J. Delgaudio , S. Dey , L. de Viveiros , C. Ding , J. E. Y. Dobson , E. Druszkiewicz , S. R. Eriksen , A. Fan , N. M. Fearon , S. Fiorucci , H. Flaecher , E. D. Fraser , T. M. A. Fruth , R. J. Gaitskell , A. Geffre , J. Genovesi , C. Ghag , R. Gibbons , S. Gokhale , J. Green , M. G. D. van der Grinten , C. R. Hall , S. Han , E. Hartigan-O'Connor , S. J. Haselschwardt , D. Q. Huang , S. A. Hertel , G. Heuermann , M. Horn , D. Hunt , C. M. Ignarra , O. Jahangir , R. S. James , J. Johnson , A. C. Kaboth , A. C. Kamaha , D. Khaitan , A. Khazov , I. Khurana , J. Kim , J. Kingston , R. Kirk , D. Kodroff , L. Korley , E. V. Korolkova , H. Kraus , S. Kravitz , L. Kreczko , B. Krikler , V. A. Kudryavtsev , E. A. Leason , J. Lee , D. S. Leonard , K. T. Lesko , C. Levy , J. Lin , A. Lindote , R. Linehan , W. H. Lippincott , X. Liu , M. I. Lopes , E. Lopez Asamar , W. Lorenzon , C. Lu , D. Lucero , S. Luitz , P. A. Majewski , A. Manalaysay , R. L. Mannino , C. Maupin , M. E. McCarthy , G. McDowell , D. N. McKinsey , J. McLaughlin , E. H. Miller , E. Mizrachi , A. Monte , M. E. Monzani , J. D. Morales Mendoza , E. Morrison , B. J. Mount , M. Murdy , A. St. J. Murphy , D. Naim , A. Naylor , C. Nedlik , H. N. Nelson , F. Neves , A. Nguyen , J. A. Nikoleyczik , I. Olcina , K. C. Oliver-Mallory , J. Orpwood , K. J. Palladino , J. Palmer , N. Parveen , S. J. Patton , B. Penning , G. Pereira , E. Perry , T. Pershing , A. Piepke , S. Poudel , Y. Qie , J. Reichenbacher , C. A. Rhyne , Q. Riffard , G. R. C. Rischbieter , H. S. Riyat , R. Rosero , T. Rushton , D. Rynders , D. Santone , A. B. M. R. Sazzad , R. W. Schnee , S. Shaw , T. Shutt , J. J. Silk , C. Silva , G. Sinev , R. Smith , V. N. Solovov , P. Sorensen , J. Soria , I. Stancu , A. Stevens , K. Stifter , B. Suerfu , T. J. Sumner , M. Szydagis , W. C. Taylor , D. J. Temples , D. R. Tiedt , M. Timalsina , Z. Tong , D. R. Tovey , J. Tranter , M. Trask , M. Tripathi , D. R. Tronstad , W. Turner , A. Vacheret , A. C. Vaitkus , A. Wang , J. J. Wang , Y. Wang , J. R. Watson , R. C. Webb , L. Weeldreyer , T. J. Whitis , M. Williams , W. J. Wisniewski , F. L. H. Wolfs , S. Woodford , D. Woodward , C. J. Wright , Q. Xia , X. Xiang , J. Xu , M. Yeh , E. A. Zweig