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Exotic Dark Matter Search with CDEX-10 Experiment at China's Jinping Underground Laboratory

A search for exotic dark matter (DM) in the sub-GeV mass range has been conducted using 205 kg$\cdot$day data taken from a p-type point contact germanium detector of CDEX-10 experiment at China Jinping underground laboratory. New low-mass…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-11-24 W. H. Dai , L. P. Jia , H. Ma , Q. Yue , K. J. Kang , Y. J. Li , H. P. An , Greeshma C. , J. P. Chang , Y. H. Chen , J. P. Cheng , Z. Deng , C. H. Fang , X. P. Geng , H. Gong , Q. J. Guo , X. Y. Guo , L. He , S. M. He , J. W. Hu , H. X. Huang , T. C. Huang , H. T. Jia , X. Jiang , S. Karmakar , H. B. Li , J. M. Li , J. Li , Q. Y. Li , R. M. J. Li , X. Q. Li , Y. L. Li , Y. F. Liang , B. Liao , F. K. Lin , S. T. Lin , S. K. Liu , Y. D. Liu , Y. Liu , Y. Y. Liu , Z. Z. Liu , Y. C. Mao , Q. Y. Nie , J. H. Ning , H. Pan , N. C. Qi , J. Ren , X. C. Ruan , Z. She , M. K. Singh , T. X. Sun , C. J. Tang , W. Y. Tang , Y. Tian , G. F. Wang , L. Wang , Q. Wang , Y. Wang , Y. X. Wang , H. T. Wong , S. Y. Wu , Y. C. Wu , H. Y. Xing , R. Xu , Y. Xu , T. Xue , Y. L. Yan , L. T. Yang , N. Yi , C. X. Yu , H. J. Yu , J. F. Yue , M. Zeng , Z. Zeng , B. T. Zhang , F. S. Zhang , L. Zhang , Z. H. Zhang , Z. Y. Zhang , K. K. Zhao , M. G. Zhao , J. F. Zhou , Z. Y. Zhou , J. J. Zhu

New limits on Bosonic Dark Matter, Solar Axions, Pauli Exclusion Principle Violation, and Electron Decay from the Majorana Demonstrator

We present new limits on exotic keV-scale physics based on 478 kg d of MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR commissioning data. Constraints at the 90% confidence level are derived on bosonic dark matter (DM) and solar axion couplings, Pauli exclusion…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2017-04-26 N. Abgrall , I. J. Arnquist , F. T. Avignone , A. S. Barabash , F. E. Bertrand , A. W. Bradley , V. Brudanin , M. Busch , M. Buuck , T. S. Caldwell , Y-D. Chan , C. D. Christofferson , P. -H. Chu , C. Cuesta , J. A. Detwiler , C. Dunagan , Yu. Efremenko , H. Ejiri , S. R. Elliott , T. Gilliss , G. K. Giovanetti , J. Goett , M. P. Green , J. Gruszko , I. S. Guinn , V. E. Guiseppe , C. R. S. Haufe , R. Henning , E. W. Hoppe , S. Howard , M. A. Howe , B. R. Jasinski , K. J. Keeter , M. F. Kidd , S. I. Konovalov , R. T. Kouzes , A. M. Lopez , J. MacMullin , R. D. Martin , R. Massarczyk , S. J. Meijer , S. Mertens , C. O'Shaughnessy , A. W. P. Poon , D. C. Radford , J. Rager , A. L. Reine , K. Rielage , R. G. H. Robertson , B. Shanks , M. Shirchenko , A. M. Suriano , D. Tedeschi , J. E. Trimble , R. L. Varner , S. Vasilyev , K. Vetter , K. Vorren , B. R. White , J. F. Wilkerson , C. Wiseman , W. Xu , E. Yakushev , C. -H. Yu , V. Yumatov , I. Zhitnikov , B. X. Zhu

A Dark Matter Search with MALBEK

The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR is an array of natural and enriched high purity germanium detectors that will search for the neutrinoless double-beta decay of 76-Ge and perform a search for weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) with masses…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2014-07-09 G. K. Giovanetti , N. Abgrall , E. Aguayo , F. T. Avignone , A. S. Barabash , F. E. Bertrand , M. Boswell , V. Brudanin , M. Busch , D. Byram , A. S. Caldwell , Y-D. Chan , C. D. Christofferson , D. C. Combs , C. Cuesta , J. A. Detwiler , P. J. Doe , Yu. Efremenko , V. Egorov , H. Ejiri , S. R. Elliott , J. E. Fast , P. Finnerty , F. M. Fraenkle , A. Galindo-Uribarri , J. Goett , M. P. Green , J. Gruszko , V. E. Guiseppe , K. Gusev , A. L. Hallin , R. Hazama , A. Hegai , R. Henning , E. W. Hoppe , S. Howard , M. A. Howe , K. J. Keeter , M. F. Kidd , O. Kochetov , S. I. Konovalov , R. T. Kouzes , B. D. LaFerriere , J. Leon , L. E. Leviner , J. C. Loach , J. MacMullin , S. MacMullin , R. D. Martin , S. Meijer , S. Mertens , M. Nomachi , J. L. Orrell , C. O'Shaughnessy , N. R. Overman , D. G. Phillips , A. W. P. Poon , K. Pushkin , D. C. Radford , J. Rager , K. Rielage , R. G. H. Robertson , E. Romero-Romero , M. C. Ronquest , A. G. Schubert , B. Shanks , T. Shima , M. Shirchenko , K. J. Snavely , N. Snyder , A. M. Suriano , J. Thompson , V. Timkin , W. Tornow , J. E. Trimble , R. L. Varner , S. Vasilyev , K. Vetter , K. Vorren , B. R. White , J. F. Wilkerson , C. Wiseman , W. Xu , E. Yakushev , A. R. Young , C. -H. Yu , V. Yumatov

Novel Search for absorption of ultra-light fermionic dark matter on electron with cosmic ray boost

The search for the absorption of fermionic dark matter (DM) on electron is hindered by a partial or complete loss of sensitivity for the mass of DM ($m_\chi$) below $\mathcal{O} (10)$ keV. We introduce a novel search using a small but…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-24 X. P. Geng , B. Zhong , Z. H. Zhang

Hidden MeV-Scale Dark Matter in Neutrino Detectors

The possibility of direct detection of light fermionic dark matter in neutrino detectors is explored from a model-independent standpoint. We consider all operators of dimension six or lower which can contribute to the interaction $\bar{f} p…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-01-07 Jennifer Kile , Amarjit Soni

Ultra-Low-Energy Germanium Detector for Neutrino-Nucleus Coherent Scattering and Dark Matter Searches

The status and plans of a research program on the development of ultra-low-energy germanium detectors with sub-keV sensitivities are reported. We survey the scientific goals which include the observation of neutrino-nucleus coherent…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 Henry T. Wong

First search for light fermionic dark matter absorption on electrons using germanium detector in CDEX-10 experiment

We present the first results of the search for sub-MeV fermionic dark matter absorbed by electron targets of germanium using the 205.4~kg$\cdot$day data collected by the CDEX-10 experiment, with the analysis threshold of 160~eVee. No…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-02-18 J. X. Liu , L. T. Yang , Q. Yue , K. J. Kang , Y. J. Li , H. P. An , Greeshma C. , J. P. Chang , Y. H. Chen , J. P. Cheng , W. H. Dai , Z. Deng , C. H. Fang , X. P. Geng , H. Gong , Q. J. Guo , T. Guo , X. Y. Guo , L. He , J. R. He , J. W. Hu , H. X. Huang , T. C. Huang , L. Jiang , S. Karmakar , H. B. Li , H. Y. Li , J. M. Li , J. Li , M. C. Li , Q. Y. Li , R. M. J. Li , X. Q. Li , Y. L. Li , Y. F. Liang , B. Liao , F. K. Lin , S. T. Lin , S. K. Liu , Y. D. Liu , Y. Liu , Y. Y. Liu , H. Ma , Y. C. Mao , Q. Y. Nie , H. Pan , N. C. Qi , J. Ren , X. C. Ruan , M. B. Shen , M. K. Singh , T. X. Sun , W. L. Sun , C. J. Tang , Y. Tian , G. F. Wang , J. Z. Wang , L. Wang , Q. Wang , Y. F. Wang , Y. X. Wang , H. T. Wong , Y. C. Wu , H. Y. Xing , K. Z. Xiong , R. Xu , Y. Xu , T. Xue , Y. L. Yan , N. Yi , C. X. Yu , H. J. Yu , M. Zeng , Z. Zeng , B. T. Zhang , F. S. Zhang , L. Zhang , P. Zhang , Z. H. Zhang , Z. Y. Zhang , J. Z. Zhao , K. K. Zhao , M. G. Zhao , J. F. Zhou , Z. Y. Zhou , J. J. Zhu

Rare Low-Energy Event Searches with the Majorana Demonstrator

The Majorana Demonstrator is currently searching for neutrinoless double-beta decay in $^{76}$Ge and will demonstrate the feasibility to deploy a tonne-scale experiment in a phased and modular fashion. It consists of two modular arrays of…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-01-29 Gulden Othman

Prospects for Light Dark Matter Searches at Large-Volume Neutrino Detectors

We propose a new approach to search for light dark matter (DM), with keV-GeV mass, via inelastic nucleus scattering at large-volume neutrino detectors such as Borexino, DUNE, Super-K, Hyper-K, and JUNO. The approach uses inelastic nuclear…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-21 Bhaskar Dutta , Wei-Chih Huang , Doojin Kim , Jayden L. Newstead , Jong-Chul Park , Iman Shaukat Ali

Dipolar Dark Matter

If dark matter (DM) has non-zero direct or transition, electric or magnetic dipole moment then it can scatter nucleons electromagnetically in direct detection experiments. Using the results from experiments like XENON, CDMS, DAMA and COGENT…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-02 Eduard Masso , Subhendra Mohanty , Soumya Rao

The hunt for sub-GeV dark matter at neutrino facilities: a survey of past and present experiments

We survey the sensitivity of past and present neutrino experiments to MeV-GeV scale dark matter, and find that these experiments possess novel sensitivity that has not yet fully explored. NO$\nu$A and BEBC are found to rule out the scalar…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-12 Luca Buonocore , Patrick deNiverville , Claudia Frugiuele

Prospects of cold dark matter searches with an ultra-low-energy germanium detector

The report describes the research program on the development of ultra-low-energy germanium detectors, with emphasis on WIMP dark matter searches. A threshold of 100 eV is achieved with a 20 g detector array, providing a unique probe to the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 H. T. Wong

Searches for new physics below twice the electron mass with GERDA

A search for full energy depositions from bosonic keV-scale dark matter candidates of masses between 65 keV and 1021 keV has been performed with data collected during Phase II of the GERmanium Detector Array (GERDA) experiment. Our analysis…

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Beyond the Standard Model Searches with the Majorana Demonstrator Experiment

The Majorana Demonstrator experiment operated two modular arrays of p-type point contact high purity germanium (HPGe) detectors, of which 30 kg is enriched to 88% in Ge-76, to search for neutrinoless double beta decay. The data-taking…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-03-02 Wenqin Xu

The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR: A Search for Neutrinoless Double-beta Decay of Germanium-76

The {\sc Majorana} collaboration is searching for neutrinoless double beta decay using $^{76}$Ge, which has been shown to have a number of advantages in terms of sensitivities and backgrounds. The observation of neutrinoless double-beta…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-07-31 MAJORANA Collaboration , S. R. Elliott , N. Abgrall , E. Aguayo , F. T. Avignone , A. S. Barabash , F. E. Bertrand , M. Boswell , V. Brudanin , M. Busch , A. S. Caldwell , Y-D. Chan , C. D. Christofferson , D. C. Combs , J. A. Detwiler , P. J. Doe , Yu. Efremenko , V. Egorov , H. Ejiri , J. Esterline , J. E. Fast , P. Finnerty , F. M. Fraenkleo , A. Galindo-Uribarri , G. K. Giovanetti , J. Goett , M. P. Green , J. Gruszko , V. E. Guiseppe , K. Gusev , A. L. Hallin , R. Hazama , A. Hegai , R. Henning , E. W. Hoppe , S. Howard , M. A. Howe , K. J. Keeter , M. F. Kidd , O. Kochetov , S. I. Konovalov , R. T. Kouzes , B. D. LaFerriere , J. Leon , L. E. Leviner , J. C. Loach , S. MacMullin , R. D. Martin , S. Mertens , L. Mizouni , M. Nomachi , J. L. Orrell , C. OShaughnessy , N. R. Overman , D. G. Phillips , A. W. P. Poon , K. Pushkin , D. C. Radford , K. Rielage , R. G. H. Robertson , M. C. Ronquest , A. G. Schubert , B. Shanks , T. Shima , M. Shirchenko , K. J. Snavely , N. Snyder , A. Soin , J. Strain , A. M. Suriano , V. Timkin , W. Tornow , R. L. Varner , S. Vasilyev , K. Vetter , K. Vorren , B. R. White , J. F. Wilkerson , W. Xu , E. Yakushev , A. R. Young , C. -H. Yu , V. Yumatov

First Search for Light Dark Matter in the Neutrino Fog with XENONnT

We search for dark matter (DM) with a mass [3,12] $\mathrm{GeV} / c^2$ using an exposure of 3.51 $\mathrm{t} \times \mathrm{y}$ with the XENONnT experiment.We consider spin-independent DM-nucleon interactions mediated by a heavy or light…

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Search for the light dark matter with an X-ray spectrometer

Sterile neutrinos with the mass in the keV range are interesting warm dark matter (WDM) candidates. The restrictions on their parameters (mass and mixing angle) obtained by current X-ray missions (XMM-Newton or Chandra) can only be improved…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Alexey Boyarsky , Jan Willem den Herder , Andrey Neronov , Oleg Ruchayskiy

The Majorana Demonstrator's Search for Double-Beta Decay of $^{76}$Ge to Excited States of $^{76}$Se

The Majorana Demonstrator is a neutrinoless double-beta decay search consisting of a low-background modular array of high-purity germanium detectors, $\sim2/3$ of which are enriched to 88\% in $^{76}$Ge. The experiment is also searching for…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2021-02-26 I. J. Arnquist , F. T. Avignone , A. S. Barabash , C. J. Barton , F. E. Bertrand , E. Blalock , B. Bos , M. Busch , M. Buuck , T. S. Caldwell , Y-D. Chan , C. D. Christofferson , P. -H. Chu , M. L. Clark , C. Cuesta , J. A. Detwiler , A. Drobizhev , T. R. Edwards , D. W. Edwins , Yu. Efremenko , H. Ejiri , S. R. Elliott , T. Gilliss , G. K. Giovanetti , M. P. Green , J. Gruszko , I. S. Guinn , V. E. Guiseppe , C. R. Haufe , R. Henning , D. Hervas Aguilar , E. W. Hoppe , A. Hostiuc , M. F. Kidd , I. Kim , R. T. Kouzes , A. M. Lopez , J. M. López-Castaño , E. L. Martin , R. D. Martin , R. Massarczyk , S. J. Meijer , S. Mertens , J. Myslik , T. K. Oli , G. Othman , L. S. Paudel , W. Pettus , A. W. P. Poon , D. C. Radford , A. L. Reine , K. Rielage , N. W. Ruof , B. Saykı , M. J. Stortini , D. Tedeschi , R. L. Varner , S. Vasilyev , J. F. Wilkerson , C. Wiseman , W. Xu , C. -H. Yu , B. X. Zhu

Light Dark Matter: Models and Constraints

We study the direct detection prospects for a representative set of simplified models of sub-GeV dark matter (DM), accounting for existing terrestrial, astrophysical and cosmological constraints. We focus on dark matter lighter than an MeV,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-01-03 Simon Knapen , Tongyan Lin , Kathryn M. Zurek

Search for Dark Matter with LHC proton Beam Dump

Dark Matter (DM) comprising particles in the mass range of a few MeV to GeV is waiting to be explored, given the many theoretical models accommodating cosmological abundance. We hereby propose an experiment with the LHC proton beam of 7 TeV…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-09-04 Ashok Kumar , Archana Sharma