Search for inelastic dark matter-nucleus scattering with the PICO-60 CF3I and C3F8 bubble chambers

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作者
Adams, E. [1 ]
Ali, B. [2 ]
Arnquist, I. J. [3 ]
Baxter, D. [4 ]
Behnke, E. [5 ]
Bressler, M. [6 ]
Broerman, B. [1 ]
Chen, C. J. [7 ]
Clark, K. [1 ]
Collar, J. I. [8 ,9 ]
Cooper, P. S. [4 ]
Cripe, C. [5 ]
Crisler, M. [4 ]
Dahl, C. E. [4 ,7 ]
Das, M. [10 ]
Fallows, S. [11 ]
Farine, J. [11 ,12 ,13 ,14 ]
Filgas, R. [2 ]
Garcia-Viltres, A. [15 ]
Giroux, G. [1 ]
Harris, O. [16 ]
Hillier, T. [11 ,12 ]
Hoppe, E. W. [3 ]
Jackson, C. M. [3 ]
Jin, M. [7 ]
Krauss, C. B.
Kumar, V.
Laurin, M. [17 ]
Lawson, I. [11 ,12 ,13 ]
Leblanc, A. [11 ,12 ]
Leng, H. [18 ]
Levine, I.
Licciardi, C. [11 ,12 ,13 ,14 ]
Lippincott, W. H. [19 ]
Mitra, P.
Monette, V. [17 ]
Moore, C. [1 ]
Neilson, R. [6 ]
Noble, A. J. [1 ]
Nozard, H. [17 ]
Pal, S.
Piro, M-C
Plante, A. [17 ]
Priya, S. [18 ]
Rethmeier, C.
Robinson, A. E. [17 ]
Savoie, J.
Sonnenschein, A.
Starinski, N. [17 ]
Stekl, I. [2 ]
机构
[1] Queens Univ, Dept Phys, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada
[2] Czech Tech Univ, Inst Expt & Appl Phys, CZ-12800 Prague, Czech Republic
[3] Pacific Northwest Natl Lab, Richland, WA 99354 USA
[4] Fermilab Natl Accelerator Lab, Batavia, IL 60510 USA
[5] Indiana Univ South Bend, Dept Phys, South Bend, IN 46634 USA
[6] Drexel Univ, Dept Phys, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA
[7] Northwestern Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, Evanston, IL 60208 USA
[8] Univ Chicago, KICP, Enr Fermi Inst, Chicago, IL 60637 USA
[9] Univ Chicago, Dept Phys, Chicago, IL 60637 USA
[10] Saha Inst Nucl Phys, High Energy Nucl & Particle Phys Div, Kolkata 700064, India
[11] Univ Alberta, Dept Phys, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E1, Canada
[12] Laurentian Univ, Sch Nat Sci, Sudbury, ON P3E 2C6, Canada
[13] SNOLAB, Lively, ON P3Y 1N2, Canada
[14] Carleton Univ, Dept Phys, Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6, Canada
[15] Univ Nacl Autonoma Mexico, Inst Fis, AP 20-364, Mexico City 01000, Mexico
[16] NE Illinois Univ, Chicago, IL 60625 USA
[17] Univ Montreal, Dept Phys, Montreal, PQ H2V 0B3, Canada
[18] Penn State, Mat Res Inst, University Pk, PA 16802 USA
[19] Univ Calif Santa Barbara, Dept Phys, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA
[20] Univ Nacl Autonoma Mexico, Inst Fis, AP 20-364, Mexico City 01000, Mexico
[21] Argonne Natl Lab, 9700 S Cass Ave, Lemont, IL 60439 USA
基金
加拿大创新基金会; 加拿大自然科学与工程研究理事会; 美国国家科学基金会;
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10.1103/PhysRevD.108.062003
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摘要
PICO bubble chambers have exceptional sensitivity to inelastic dark matter-nucleus interactions due to a combination of their extended nuclear-recoil energy detection window from a few keV to Oo100 keV thorn or more and the use of iodine as a heavy target. Inelastic dark matter-nucleus scattering is interesting for studying the properties of dark matter, where many theoretical scenarios have been developed. This study reports the results of a search for dark matter inelastic scattering with the PICO-60 bubble chambers. The analysis reported here comprises physics runs from PICO-60 bubble chambers using CF3I and C3F8. The CF3I run consisted of 36.8 kg of CF3I reaching an exposure of 3415 kg-day operating at thermodynamic thresholds between 7 and 20 keV. The C3F8 runs consisted of 52 kg of C3F8 reaching exposures of 1404 and 1167 kg-day running at thermodynamic thresholds of 2.45 and 3.29 keV, respectively. The analysis disfavors various scenarios, in a wide region of parameter space, that provide a feasible explanation of the signal observed by the DAMA experiment, assuming an inelastic interaction, considering that the PICO CF3I bubble chamber used iodine as the target material.
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