Dark Matter Results from First 98.7 Days of Data from the PandaX-II Experiment

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 117, Issue 12, 2016, Pages

  Tan, Andi ^b   Xiao, Mengjiao ^a,b   Cui, Xiangyi ^a   Chen, Xun ^a   Chen, Yunhua ^c   Fang, Deqing ^d   Fu, Changbo ^a   Giboni, Karl ^a   Giuliani, Franco ^a   Gong, Haowei ^a   Guo, Xuyuan ^c   Han, Ke ^a   Hu, Shouyang ^e   Huang, Xingtao ^f   Ji, Xiangdong ^a,b,g   Ju, Yonglin ^a   Lei, Siao ^a   Li, Shaoli ^a   Li, Xiaomei ^e   Li, Xinglong ^e   Liang, Hao ^e   Lin, Qing ^a,j   Liu, Huaxuan ^a   Liu, Jianglai ^a   Lorenzon, Wolfgang ^h   Ma, Yugang ^d   Mao, Yajun ^g   Ni, Kaixuan ^a,k   Ren, Xiangxiang ^a   Schubnell, Michael ^h   Shen, Manbin ^c   Shi, Fang ^a   Wang, Hongwei ^d   Wang, Jimin ^c   Wang, Meng ^f   Wang, Qiuhong ^d   Wang, Siguang ^g   Wang, Xuming ^a   Wang, Zhou ^a   Wu, Shiyong ^c   Xiao, Xiang ^a   Xie, Pengwei ^a   Yan, Binbin ^f   Yang, Yong ^a   Yue, Jianfeng ^c   Zeng, Xionghui ^c   Zhang, Hongguang ^a   Zhang, Hua ^a   Zhang, Huanqiao ^e   Zhang, Tao ^a   Zhao, Li ^a   Zhou, Jing ^e   Zhou, Ning ^a,i   Zhou, Xiaopeng ^g   more..

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b University of Maryland   (United States)

^c Yalong River Hydropower Development Company Ltd   (China)

^d SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (China)

^e CHINA INSTITUTE OF ATOMIC ENERGY   (China)

^f SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^g PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

ⁱ TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^j Tsinghua University ^*  (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GALAXIES;

CONFIDENCE LEVELS; DARK MATTER SEARCHES; LIQUID XENON; SCATTERING CROSS SECTION; TIME PROJECTION CHAMBERS; UNDERGROUND LABORATORY; UPPER LIMITS; WEAKLY INTERACTING MASSIVE PARTICLES;

DARK MATTER;

EID: 84990225946     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.121303     Document Type: Article

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