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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

DAMA and CoGeNT without astrophysical uncertainties

The CoGeNT collaboration has reported evidence of an annual modulation in its first fifteen months of data. Here we compare the amplitude and phase of this signal to the modulation observed by the DAMA collaboration, assuming that both…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-09-14 Christopher McCabe

Search for Low-Mass WIMPs with SuperCDMS

We report a first search for weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) using the background rejection capabilities of SuperCDMS. An exposure of 577 kg-days was analyzed for WIMPs with mass < 30 GeV/c2, with the signal region blinded.…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2014-06-25 R. Agnese , A. J. Anderson , M. Asai , D. Balakishiyeva , R. Basu Thakur , D. A. Bauer , J. Beaty , J. Billard , A. Borgland , M. A. Bowles , D. Brandt , P. L. Brink , R. Bunker , B. Cabrera , D. O. Caldwell , D. G. Cerdeno , H. Chagani , Y. Chen , M. Cherry , J. Cooley , B. Cornell , C. H. Crewdson , P. Cushman , M. Daal , D. DeVaney , P. C. F. Di Stefano , E. Do Couto E Silva , T. Doughty , L. Esteban , S. Fallows , E. Figueroa-Feliciano , G. L. Godfrey , S. R. Golwala , J. Hall , S. Hansen , H. R. Harris , S. A. Hertel , B. A. Hines , T. Hofer , D. Holmgren , L. Hsu , M. E. Huber , A. Jastram , O. Kamaev , B. Kara , M. H. Kelsey , S. Kenany , A. Kennedy , M. Kiveni , K. Koch , A. Leder , B. Loer , E. Lopez Asamar , R. Mahapatra , V. Mandic , C. Martinez , K. A. McCarthy , N. Mirabolfathi , R. A. Moffatt , R. H. Nelson , L. Novak , K. Page , R. Partridge , M. Pepin , A. Phipps , M. Platt , K. Prasad , M. Pyle , H. Qiu , W. Rau , P. Redl , A. Reisetter , R. W. Resch , Y. Ricci , M. Ruschman , T. Saab , B. Sadoulet , J. Sander , R. L. Schmitt , K. Schneck , R. W. Schnee , S. Scorza , D. N. Seitz , B. Serfass , B. Shank , D. Speller , A. Tomada , S. Upadhyayula , A. N. Villano , B. Welliver , D. H. Wright , S. Yellin , J. J. Yen , B. A. Young , J. Zhang

Scalar Dark Matter and DAMA

A light scalar WIMP is studied in view of the recent results of the DAMA collaboration. In a scenario where both the WIMP's annihilation and its elastic scattering on nuclei occur dominantly through Higgs exchange, a one-to-one relation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-05-07 Sarah Andreas

Limits on spin-dependent WIMP-nucleon interactions from the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search

The Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS) is an experiment to detect weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) based on their interactions with Ge and Si nuclei. We report the results of an analysis of data from the first two runs of CDMS…

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Constraints on inelastic dark matter from the CDEX-1B experiment

We present limits on spin-independent inelastic weakly interacting massive particles (WIMP)-nucleus scattering using the 737.1 kg$\cdot$day dataset from the CDEX-1B experiment. Expected nuclear recoil spectra for various inelastic WIMP…

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Improved Spin Dependent Limits from the PICASSO Dark Matter Search Experiment

The PICASSO experiment reports an improved limit for the existence of cold dark matter WIMPs interacting via spin-dependent interactions with nuclei. The experiment is installed in the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory at a depth of 2070 m. With…

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Proton-philic spin-dependent inelastic Dark Matter (pSIDM) as a viable explanation of DAMA/LIBRA-phase2

We show that the Weakly Interacting Massive Particle scenario of proton-philic spin-dependent inelastic Dark Matter (pSIDM) can still provide a viable explanation of the observed DAMA modulation amplitude in compliance with the constraints…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-02-13 Sunghyun Kang , Stefano Scopel , Gaurav Tomar , Jong-Hyun Yoon

Results on the Spin-Dependent Scattering of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles on Nucleons from the Run 3 Data of the LUX Experiment

We present the first experimental constraints on the spin-dependent WIMP-nucleon elastic cross sections from LUX data acquired in 2013. LUX is a dual-phase xenon time projection chamber operating at the Sanford Underground Research Facility…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-05-17 LUX Collaboration , D. S. Akerib , H. M. Araújo , X. Bai , A. J. Bailey , J. Balajthy , P. Beltrame , E. P. Bernard , A. Bernstein , T. P. Biesiadzinski , E. M. Boulton , A. Bradley , R. Bramante , S. B. Cahn , M. C. Carmona-Benitez , C. Chan , J. J. Chapman , A. A. Chiller , C. Chiller , A. Currie , J. E. Cutter , T. J. R. Davison , L. de Viveiros , A. Dobi , J. E. Y. Dobson , E. Druszkiewicz , B. N. Edwards , C. H. Faham , S. Fiorucci , R. J. Gaitskell , V. M. Gehman , C. Ghag , K. R. Gibson , M. G. D. Gilchriese , C. R. Hall , M. Hanhardt , S. J. Haselschwardt , S. A. Hertel , D. P. Hogan , M. Horn , D. Q. Huang , C. M. Ignarra , M. Ihm , R. G. Jacobsen , W. Ji , K. Kazkaz , D. Khaitan , R. Knoche , N. A. Larsen , C. Lee , B. G. Lenardo , K. T. Lesko , A. Lindote , M. I. Lopes , D. C. Malling , A. Manalaysay , R. L. Mannino , M. F. Marzioni , D. N. McKinsey , D. M. Mei , J. Mock , M. Moongweluwan , J. A. Morad , A. St. J. Murphy , C. Nehrkorn , H. N. Nelson , F. Neves , K. O'Sullivan , K. C. Oliver-Mallory , R. A. Ott , K. J. Palladino , M. Pangilinan , E. K. Pease , P. Phelps , L. Reichhart , C. Rhyne , S. Shaw , T. A. Shutt , C. Silva , V. N. Solovov , P. Sorensen , S. Stephenson , T. J. Sumner , M. Szydagis , D. J. Taylor , W. Taylor , B. P. Tennyson , P. A. Terman , D. R. Tiedt , W. H. To , M. Tripathi , L. Tvrznikova , S. Uvarov , J. R. Verbus , R. C. Webb , J. T. White , T. J. Whitis , M. S. Witherell , F. L. H. Wolfs , K. Yazdani , S. K. Young , C. 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

DAMA annual modulation is not due to electron recoils from Plasma/Mirror Dark Matter with Kinetic Mixing

If dark matter is composed of new fundamental particles, Earth's orbital motion around the Sun may induce an annual modulation in the rate at which these particles interact in a terrestrial detector. The DAMA collaboration has identified at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-27 Douglas Q. Adams , Sunniva Jacobsen , Chris Kelso

Analysis strategies for general spin-independent WIMP-nucleus scattering

We propose a formalism for the analysis of direct-detection dark-matter searches that covers all coherent responses for scalar and vector interactions and incorporates QCD constraints imposed by chiral symmetry, including all one- and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-14 Martin Hoferichter , Philipp Klos , Javier Menéndez , Achim Schwenk

Extending the DAMA annual-modulation region by inclusion of the uncertainties in the astrophysical velocities

The original annual-modulation region, singled out by the DAMA/NaI experiment for direct detection of WIMPs, is extended by taking into account the uncertainties in the galactic astrophysical velocities. Also the effect due to a possible…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 P. Belli , R. Bernabei , A. Bottino , F. Donato , N. Fornengo , D. Prosperi , S. Scopel

Are direct search experiments sensitive to all spin-independent WIMP candidates?

The common analysis of direct searches for spin-independent Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) assumes that a spin-independent WIMP couples with the same strength with both nucleons, \textit{i.e.} that the spin-independent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 F. Giuliani

Global interpretation of direct Dark Matter searches after CDMS-II results

We perform a global fit to data from Dark Matter (DM) direct detection experiments, including the recent CDMS-II results. We discuss possible interpretations of the DAMA annual modulation signal in terms of spin-independent and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-05-28 Joachim Kopp , Thomas Schwetz , Jure Zupan

Direct dark matter search by annual modulation in XMASS-I

A search for dark matter was conducted by looking for an annual modulation signal due to the Earth's rotation around the Sun using XMASS, a single phase liquid xenon detector. The data used for this analysis was 359.2 live days times 832 kg…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-27 XMASS Collaboration , K. Abe , K. Hiraide , K. Ichimura , Y. Kishimoto , K. Kobayashi , M. Kobayashi , S. Moriyama , M. Nakahata , T. Norita , H. Ogawa , H. Sekiya , O. Takachio , A. Takeda , M. Yamashita , B. S. Yang , N. Y. Kim , Y. D. Kim , S. Tasaka , K. Fushimi , J. Liu , K. Martens , Y. Suzuki , B. D. Xu , R. Fujita , K. Hosokawa , K. Miuchi , Y. Onishi , N. Oka , Y. Takeuchi , Y. H. Kim , J. S. Lee , K. B. Lee , M. K. Lee , Y. Fukuda , Y. Itow , R. Kegasa , K. Kobayashi , K. Masada , H. Takiya , K. Nishijima , S. Nakamura

Anapole Dark Matter after DAMA/LIBRA-phase2

We re-examine the case of anapole dark matter as an explanation for the DAMA annual modulation in light of the DAMA/LIBRA-phase2 results and improved upper limits from other DM searches. If the WIMP velocity distribution is assumed to be a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-11-29 Sunghyun Kang , Stefano Scopel , Gaurav Tomar , Jong-Hyun Yoon , Paolo Gondolo

Limits on WIMP-Scattering Cross Sections using Solar Neutrinos with Ten Years of IceCube Data

Although dark matter (DM) comprises 84\% of the matter content of the Universe, its nature remains unknown. One broad class of particle DM motivated by extensions of the Standard Model (SM) is weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs).…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-14 Jeffrey Lazar

Results from a search for dark matter in the complete LUX exposure

We report constraints on spin-independent weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP)-nucleon scattering using a 3.35e4 kg-day exposure of the Large Underground Xenon (LUX) experiment. A dual-phase xenon time projection chamber with 250 kg…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-18 D. S. Akerib , S. Alsum , H. M. Araújo , X. Bai , A. J. Bailey , J. Balajthy , P. Beltrame , E. P. Bernard , A. Bernstein , T. P. Biesiadzinski , E. M. Boulton , R. Bramante , P. Brás , D. Byram , S. B. Cahn , M. C. Carmona-Benitez , C. Chan , A. A. Chiller , C. Chiller , A. Currie , J. E. Cutter , T. J. R. Davison , A. Dobi , J. E. Y. Dobson , E. Druszkiewicz , B. N. Edwards , C. H. Faham , S. Fiorucci , R. J. Gaitskell , V. M. Gehman , C. Ghag , K. R. Gibson , M. G. D. Gilchriese , C. R. Hall , M. Hanhardt , S. J. Haselschwardt , S. A. Hertel , D. P. Hogan , M. Horn , D. Q. Huang , C. M. Ignarra , M. Ihm , R. G. Jacobsen , W. Ji , K. Kamdin , K. Kazkaz , D. Khaitan , R. Knoche , N. A. Larsen , C. Lee , B. G. Lenardo , K. T. Lesko , A. Lindote , M. I. Lopes , A. Manalaysay , R. L. Mannino , M. F. Marzioni , D. N. McKinsey , D. M. Mei , J. Mock , M. Moongweluwan , J. A. Morad , A. St. J. Murphy , C. Nehrkorn , H. N. Nelson , F. Neves , K. O`Sullivan , K. C. Oliver-Mallory , K. J. Palladino , E. K. Pease , P. Phelps , L. Reichhart , C. Rhyne , S. Shaw , T. A. Shutt , C. Silva , M. Solmaz , V. N. Solovov , P. Sorensen , S. Stephenson , T. J. Sumner , M. Szydagis , D. J. Taylor , W. C. Taylor , B. P. Tennyson , P. A. Terman , D. R. Tiedt , W. H. To , M. Tripathi , L. Tvrznikova , S. Uvarov , J. R. Verbus , R. C. Webb , J. T. White , T. J. Whitis , M. S. Witherell , F. L. H. Wolfs , J. Xu , K. Yazdani , S. K. Young , C. Zhang