Dark Matter Results from 54-Ton-Day Exposure of PandaX-II Experiment

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 119, Issue 18, 2017, Pages

  Cui, Xiangyi ^a   Abdukerim, Abdusalam ^b   Chen, Wei ^a   Chen, Xun ^a   Chen, Yunhua ^c   Dong, Binbin ^a   Fang, Deqing ^d   Fu, Changbo ^a   Giboni, Karl ^a   Giuliani, Franco ^a   Gu, Linhui ^a   Gu, Yikun ^a   Guo, Xuyuan ^c   Guo, Zhifan ^a   Han, Ke ^a   He, Changda ^a   Huang, Di ^a   He, Shengming ^c   Huang, Xingtao ^e   Huang, Zhou ^a   Ji, Xiangdong ^a   Ju, Yonglin ^a   Li, Shaoli ^a   Li, Yao ^a   Lin, Heng ^a   Liu, Huaxuan ^a   Liu, Jianglai ^a,d   Ma, Yugang ^d   Mao, Yajun ^f   Ni, Kaixiang ^a   Ning, Jinhua ^c   Ren, Xiangxiang ^a   Shi, Fang ^a   Tan, Andi ^g   Wang, Cheng ^a   Wang, Hongwei ^d   Wang, Meng ^e   Wang, Qiuhong ^d   Wang, Siguang ^f   Wang, Xiuli ^a   Wang, Xuming ^a   Wu, Qinyu ^a   Wu, Shiyong ^c   Xiao, Mengjiao ^f,g   Xie, Pengwei ^a   Yan, Binbin ^e   Yang, Yong ^a   Yue, Jianfeng ^c   Zhang, Dan ^a   Zhang, Hongguang ^a   Zhang, Tao ^a   Zhang, Tianqi ^a   Zhao, Li ^a   Zhou, Jifang ^c   Zhou, Ning ^a   Zhou, Xiaopeng ^f   more..

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b XINJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Yalong River Hydropower Development Company Ltd   (China)

^d SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (China)

^e SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^g University of Maryland   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC PHYSICS;

DARK MATTER; DATA SET; LOW BACKGROUND; UPPER LIMITS; WEAKLY INTERACTING MASSIVE PARTICLES;

PHYSICS;

ARTICLE; CHINA; NUCLEON;

EID: 85032737302     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.181302     Document Type: Article

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