Searching for Heavy Dark Matter near the Planck Mass with XENON1T

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 interac...

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Veröffentlicht in:Physical review letters 2023-06, Vol.130 (26), p.261002-261002, Article 261002
Hauptverfasser: Aprile, E, Abe, K, Ahmed Maouloud, S, Althueser, L, Andrieu, B, Angelino, E, Angevaare, J R, Antochi, V C, Antón Martin, D, Arneodo, F, Baudis, L, Baxter, A L, Bazyk, M, Bellagamba, L, Biondi, R, Bismark, A, Brookes, E J, Brown, A, Bruenner, S, Bruno, G, Budnik, R, Bui, T K, Cai, C, Cardoso, J M R, Cichon, D, Cimental Chavez, A P, Clark, M, Colijn, A P, Conrad, J, Cuenca-García, J J, Cussonneau, J P, D'Andrea, V, Decowski, M P, Di Gangi, P, Di Pede, S, Diglio, S, Eitel, K, Elykov, A, Farrell, S, Ferella, A D, Ferrari, C, Fischer, H, Flierman, M, Fulgione, W, Fuselli, C, Gaemers, P, Gaior, R, Gallo Rosso, A, Galloway, M, Gao, F, Glade-Beucke, R, Grandi, L, Grigat, J, Guan, H, Guida, M, Hammann, R, Higuera, A, Hils, C, Hoetzsch, L, Hood, N F, Howlett, J, Iacovacci, M, Itow, Y, Jakob, J, Joerg, F, Joy, A, Kato, N, Kara, M, Kavrigin, P, Kazama, S, Kobayashi, M, Koltman, G, Kopec, A, Kuger, F, Landsman, H, Lang, R F, Levinson, L, Li, I, Li, S, Liang, S, Lindemann, S, Lindner, M, Liu, K, Loizeau, J, Lombardi, F, Long, J, Lopes, J A M, Ma, Y, Macolino, C, Mahlstedt, J, Mancuso, A, Manenti, L, Marignetti, F, Marrodán Undagoitia, T, Martens, K, Masbou, J, Masson, D, Masson, E, Mastroianni, S, Messina, M
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Zusammenfassung: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 1×10^{12} and 2×10^{17}  GeV/c^{2}. 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.
ISSN:0031-9007
1079-7114
1079-7114
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.261002