Tuesday, November 27, 2012

1211.5404 (K. Abe et al.)

Light WIMP search in XMASS    [PDF]

K. Abe, K. Hieda, K. Hiraide, S. Hirano, Y. Kishimoto, K. Kobayashi, S. Moriyama, K. Nakagawa, M. Nakahata, H. Ogawa, N. Oka, H. Sekiya, A. Shinozaki Y. Suzuki, A. Takeda, O. Takachio, K. Ueshima, D. Umemoto, M. Yamashita, B. S. Yang, S. Tasaka, J. Liu, K. Martens, K. Hosokawa, K. Miuchi, A. Murata, Y. Onishi, Y. Otsuka, Y. Takeuchi, Y. H. Kim, K. B. Lee, M. K. Lee, J. S. Lee, Y. Fukuda, Y. Itow, K. Masuda, Y. Nishitani, H. Takiya, H. Uchida, N. Y. Kim, Y. D. Kim, F. Kusaba, D. Motoki, K. Nishijima, K. Fujii, I. Murayama, S. Nakamura
A search for light dark matter using low-threshold data from the single phase liquid xenon scintillation detector XMASS, has been conducted. Using the entire 835 kg inner volume as target, the analysis threshold can be lowered to 0.3 keVee (electron-equivalent) to search for light dark matter. With low-threshold data corresponding to a 5591.4 kg$\cdot$day exposure of the detector and without discriminating between nuclear-recoil and electronic events, XMASS sets an upper limit on the WIMP-nucleon cross section for WIMPs with masses below 20 GeV and excludes part of the parameter space allowed by other experiments.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.5404

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