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Searching for Heavy Dark Matter near the Planck Mass with XENON1T

Author(s): 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. ; DiGangi, P. ; Di Pede, S. ; Diglio, S. ; Eitel, K. ; Elykov, A. ; Farrell, T. ; 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. ; Miuchi, K. ; Mizukoshi, K. ; Molinario, A. ; Moriyama, S. ; Morå, K .D. ; Mosbacher, Y. ; Murra, M. ; Müller, J. ; Ni, K. ; Oberlack, U. ; Paetsch, B. ; Palacio, J. ; Pellegrini, Q. ; Peres, R. ; Peters, C. ; Pienaar, J. ; Pierre, M. ; Pizzella, V. ; Plante, G. ; Pollmann, T. R. ; Qi, J. ; Qin, J. ; Ramírez García, D. ; Singh, R. ; Sanchez, L. ; Santos, J. M. F. dos ; Sarnoff, I. ; Sartorelli, G. ; Schreiner, J. ; Schulte, D. ; Schulte, P. ; Schulze Eißing, H. ; Schumann, M. ; Scotto Lavina, L. ; Selvi, M. ; Semeria, F. ; Shagin, P. ; Shi, S. ; Shockley, E. ; Silva, M. ; Simgen, H. ; Takeda, A. ; Tan, P-L ; Terliuk, A. ; Thers, D. ; Toschi, F. ; Trinchero, G. ; Tunnell, C. ; Tönnies, F. ; Valerius, K. ; Volta, G. ; Weinheimer, C. ; Weiss, M. ; Wenz, D. ; Wittweg, C. ; Wolf, T. ; Wu, V. H. S. ; Xing, Y. ; Xu, D. ; Xu, Z. R. ; Yamashita, M. ; Yang, L. ; Ye, J. ; Yuan, L. ; Zavattini, G. ; Zhong, M. ; Zhu, T.

Date: 2023

Persistent ID: https://hdl.handle.net/10316/112582

Origin: Estudo Geral - Universidade de Coimbra

Subject(s): High Energy Physics - Experiment; High Energy Physics - Experiment; Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors


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7 pages, 6 figures

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.

We gratefully acknowledge support from the National Science Foundation, Swiss National Science Foundation, German Ministry for Education and Research, Max Planck Gesellschaft, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Helmholtz Association, Dutch Research Council (NWO), Weizmann Institute of Science, Israeli Science Foundation, Binational Science Foundation, Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia, R´egion des Pays de la Loire, Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, Kavli Foundation, JSPS Kakenhi and JST FOREST Program in Japan, Tsinghua University Initiative Scientific Research Program, and Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare. This project has received funding and/or support from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Skłodowska- Curie Grant Agreement No. 860881-HIDDeN. Data processing is performed using infrastructures from the Open Science Grid, the European Grid Initiative, and the Dutch National e-infrastructure with the support of SURF Cooperative. We are grateful to Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso for hosting and supporting the XENON project.

Document Type Journal article
Language English
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