利用 DEAP-3600 探测器通过多次散射特征对普朗克尺度质量暗物质的首次直接探测约束
宇宙学与河外天体物理
2022-01-07 v2 高能天体物理现象
高能物理 - 实验
高能物理 - 唯象学
摘要
具有普朗克尺度质量（）的暗物质粒子在动机充分的理论中自然出现，并可由若干宇宙学机制产生。利用 DEAP-3600（SNOLAB 一台 3.3 t 单相液氩暗物质实验）在 813 天存活时间内所采集数据的盲分析，我们开展了针对超大质量暗物质的搜索，寻找多次散射信号。未观测到候选信号事件，从而给出了对普朗克尺度质量暗物质的首次直接探测约束。主要限制将暗物质质量约束在 到 之间，以及在 Ar 上散射的截面约束在 到 之间。这些结果被用于约束两种复合暗物质模型。
引用
@article{arxiv.2108.09405,
title = {First direct detection constraints on Planck-scale mass dark matter with multiple-scatter signatures using the DEAP-3600 detector},
author = {P. Adhikari and R. Ajaj and M. Alpízar-Venegas and D. J. Auty and H. Benmansour and C. E. Bina and W. Bonivento and M. G. Boulay and M. Cadeddu and B. Cai and M. Cárdenas-Montes and S. Cavuoti and Y. Chen and B. T. Cleveland and J. M. Corning and S. Daugherty and P. DelGobbo and P. Di Stefano and L. Doria and M. Dunford and E. Ellingwood and A. Erlandson and S. S. Farahani and N. Fatemighomi and G. Fiorillo and D. Gallacher and P. García Abia and S. Garg and P. Giampa and D. Goeldi and P. Gorel and K. Graham and A. Grobov and A. L. Hallin and M. Hamstra and T. Hugues and A. Ilyasov and A. Joy and B. Jigmeddorj and C. J. Jillings and O. Kamaev and G. Kaur and A. Kemp and I. Kochanek and M. Ku{ź}niak and M. Lai and S. Langrock and B. Lehnert and A. Leonhardt and N. Levashko and X. Li and M. Lissia and O. Litvinov and J. Lock and G. Longo and I. Machulin and A. B. McDonald and T. McElroy and J. B. McLaughlin and C. Mielnichuk and L. Mirasola and J. Monroe and G. Oliviéro and S. Pal and S. J. M. Peeters and M. Perry and V. Pesudo and E. Picciau and M. -C. Piro and T. R. Pollmann and N. Raj and E. T. Rand and C. Rethmeier and F. Retière and I. Rodríguez-García and L. Roszkowski and J. B. Ruhland and E. Sanchez García and T. Sánchez-Pastor and R. Santorelli and S. Seth and D. Sinclair and P. Skensved and B. Smith and N. J. T. Smith and T. Sonley and R. Stainforth and M. Stringer and B. Sur and E. Vázquez-Jáuregui and S. Viel and J. Walding and M. Waqar and M. Ward and S. Westerdale and J. Willis and A. Zuñiga-Reyes},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.09405},
year = {2022}
}