Search for bosonic super-WIMP interactions with the XENON100 experimentShow others and affiliations
Number of Authors: 1202017 (English)In: Physical Review D: covering particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology, ISSN 2470-0010, E-ISSN 2470-0029, Vol. 96, no 12, article id 122002Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
We present results of searches for vector and pseudoscalar bosonic super-weakly interacting massive particles (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 the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso. A profile likelihood analysis of data with an exposure of 224.6 live days x34 kg showed no evidence for a signal above the expected background. We thus obtain new and stringent upper limits in the (8-125) keV/c(2) mass range, excluding couplings to electrons with coupling constants of g(ae) > 3 x 10(-13) for pseudo-scalar and alpha'/alpha > 2 x 10(-28) for vector super-WIMPs, respectively. These limits are derived under the assumption that super-WIMPs constitute all of the dark matter in our galaxy.
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2017. Vol. 96, no 12, article id 122002
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URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-150923DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.96.122002ISI: 000417477700002Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85040174172OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-150923DiVA, id: diva2:1172166
2018-01-092018-01-092022-10-20Bibliographically approved