TY - JOUR
T1 - Searching for Heavy Dark Matter near the Planck Mass with XENON1T
AU - Aprile, E.
AU - Budnik, R.
AU - Kavrigin, P.
AU - Koltman, G.
AU - Landsman, H.
AU - Levinson, L.
AU - Paetsch, B.
AU - Weiss, M.
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PY - 2023/6/30
Y1 - 2023/6/30
N2 - Multiple viable theoretical models predict heavy dark matter particles with a mass close to the Planck mass, a range relatively unexplored by current experimental measurements. We use 219.4 days of data collected with the XENON1T experiment to conduct a blind search for signals from multiply interacting massive particles (MIMPs). Their unique track signature allows a targeted analysis with only 0.05 expected background events from muons. Following unblinding, we observe no signal candidate events. This Letter places strong constraints on spin-independent interactions of dark matter particles with a mass between 1×1012 and 2×1017 GeV/c2. In addition, we present the first exclusion limits on spin-dependent MIMP-neutron and MIMP-proton cross sections for dark matter particles with masses close to the Planck scale.
AB - Multiple viable theoretical models predict heavy dark matter particles with a mass close to the Planck mass, a range relatively unexplored by current experimental measurements. We use 219.4 days of data collected with the XENON1T experiment to conduct a blind search for signals from multiply interacting massive particles (MIMPs). Their unique track signature allows a targeted analysis with only 0.05 expected background events from muons. Following unblinding, we observe no signal candidate events. This Letter places strong constraints on spin-independent interactions of dark matter particles with a mass between 1×1012 and 2×1017 GeV/c2. In addition, we present the first exclusion limits on spin-dependent MIMP-neutron and MIMP-proton cross sections for dark matter particles with masses close to the Planck scale.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.261002
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.261002
M3 - مقالة
C2 - 37450817
SN - 0031-9007
VL - 130
JO - Physical review letters
JF - Physical review letters
IS - 26
M1 - 261002
ER -