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Search for inelastic dark matter-nucleus scattering with the PICO-60 CF$_{3}$I and C$_{3}$F$_{8}$ bubble chambers
| العنوان: | Search for inelastic dark matter-nucleus scattering with the PICO-60 CF$_{3}$I and C$_{3}$F$_{8}$ bubble chambers |
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| المؤلفون: | Adams, E., Ali, B., Arnquist, I. J., Baxter, D., Behnke, E., Bressler, M., Broerman, B., Chen, C. J., Clark, K., Collar, J. I., Cooper, P. S., Cripe, C., Crisler, M., Dahl, C. E., Das, M., Fallows, S., Farine, J., Filgas, R., Viltres, A. García, Giroux, G., Harris, O., Hillier, T., Hoppe, E. W., Jackson, C. M., Jin, M., Krauss, C. B., Kumar, V., Laurin, M., Lawson, I., Leblanc, A., Leng, H., Levine, I., Licciardi, C., Lippincott, W. H., Mitra, P., Monette, V., Moore, C., Neilson, R., Noble, A. J., Nozard, H., Pal, S., Piro, M. -C., Plante, A., Priya, S., Rethmeier, C., Robinson, A. E., Savoie, J., Sonnenschein, A., Starinski, N., Štekl, I., Tiwari, D., Vázquez-Jáuregui, E., Wichoski, U., Zacek, V., Zhang, J. |
| سنة النشر: | 2023 |
| المجموعة: | Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Experiment High Energy Physics - Phenomenology |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology |
| الوصف: | 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 $O$(100 keV) 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 CF$_{3}$I and C$_{3}$F$_{8}$. The CF$_{3}$I run consisted of 36.8 kg of CF$_{3}$I reaching an exposure of 3415 kg-day operating at thermodynamic thresholds between 7 and 20 keV. The C$_{3}$F$_{8}$ runs consisted of 52 kg of C$_{3}$F$_{8}$ reaching exposures of 1404 kg-day and 1167 kg-day running at thermodynamic thresholds of 2.45 keV 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 DAMA, assuming an inelastic interaction, considering that the PICO CF$_{3}$I bubble chamber used iodine as the target material. Comment: 7 pages, 3 figures |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Working Paper |
| URL الوصول: | http://arxiv.org/abs/2301.08993 |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsarx.2301.08993 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | arXiv |
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