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Abstract: We present constraints on the existence of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) from an 11 kg?d target exposure of the DAMIC experiment at the SNOLAB underground laboratory. The observed energy spectrum and spatial distribution of ionization events with electron-equivalent energies >200??eVee in the DAMIC CCDs are consistent with backgrounds from natural radioactivity. An excess of ionization events is observed above the analysis threshold of 50??eVee. While the origin of this low-energy excess requires further investigation, our data exclude spin-independent WIMP-nucleon scattering cross sections ???n as low as 3×10?41??cm2 for WIMPs with masses m? from 7 to 10??GeV?c?2. These results are the strongest constraints from a silicon target on the existence of WIMPs with m?<9??GeV?c?2 and are directly relevant to any dark matter interpretation of the excess of nuclear-recoil events observed by the CDMS silicon experiment in 2013.
Fuente: Physical Review Letters, 2020, 125(24), 241803
Publisher: American Physical Society
Publication date: 01/12/2020
No. of pages: 6
Publication type: Article
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.241803
ISSN: 0031-9007,1079-7114
Publication Url: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.241803
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AGUILAR ARÉVALO, A.
AMIDEI, D.
CANCELO, G.
CERVANTES VERGARA, B. A.
CHAVARRÍA, A. E.
ROCIO VILAR CORTABITARTE
MARIA AMPARO LOPEZ VIRTO
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