First Dark Matter Search Results from the XENON1T Experiment

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 119, Issue 18, 2017, Pages

  Aprile, E ^a   Aalbers, J ^b   Agostini, F ^c,d   Alfonsi, M ^e   Amaro, F D ^f   Anthony, M ^a   Arneodo, F ^g   Barrow, P ^h   Baudis, L ^h   Bauermeister, B ⁱ   Benabderrahmane, M L ^g   Berger, T ^j   Breur, P A ^b   Brown, A ^b,h   Brown, E ^j   Bruenner, S ^k   Bruno, G ^c   Budnik, R ^l   Butikofer L ^m,x   Calven J ⁱ   Cardoso, J M R ^f   Cervantes, M ⁿ   Cichon, D ^k   Coderre, D ^m   Colijn, A P ^b   Conrad, J ⁱ   Cussonneau, J P ^o   Decowski, M P ^b   De Perio, P ^a   Di Gangi, P ^d   Di Giovanni, A ^g   Diglio, S ^o   Eurin, G ^k   Fei, J ^p   Ferella, A D ⁱ   Fieguth, A ^q   Fulgione, W ^c,r   Gallo Rosso, A ^c   Galloway, M ^h   Gao, F ^a   Garbini, M ^d   Gardner, R ^s   Geis, C ^e   Goetzke, L W ^a   Grandi, L ^s   Greene, Z ^a   Grignon, C ^e   Hasterok, C ^k   Hogenbirk, E ^b   Howlett, J ^a   Itay, R ^l   Kaminsky, B ^m,w   Kazama, S ^h   Kessler, G ^h   Kish, A ^h   Landsman, H ^l   Lang, R F ⁿ   Lellouch, D ^l   Levinson, L ^l   Lin, Q ^a   Lindemann, S ^k,m   Lindner, M ^k   Lombardi, F ^p   Lopes, J A M ^f,x   Manfredini, A ^l   Maris I ^g   Marrodan Undagoitia T ^k   Masbou, J ^o   Massoli, F V ^d   Masson, D ⁿ   Mayani, D ^h   Messina, M ^a   Micheneau, K ^o   Molinario, A ^c   Mora K ⁱ   Murra, M ^q   Naganoma, J ^t   Ni, K ^p   Oberlack, U ^e   Pakarha, P ^h   Pelssers, B ⁱ   Persiani, R ^o   Piastra, F ^h   Pienaar, J ⁿ   Pizzella, V ^k   Piro, M C ^j   Plante, G ^a   Priel, N ^l   Rauch, L ^k   Reichard, S ^h,n   Reuter, C ⁿ   Riedel, B ^s   Rizzo, A ^a   Rosendahl, S ^q   Rupp, N ^k   Saldanha, R ^s   Dos Santos, J M F ^f   Sartorelli, G ^d   Scheibelhut, M ^e   Schindler, S ^e   Schreiner, J ^k   Schumann, M ^m   Scotto Lavina, L ^u   Selvi, M ^d   Shagin, P ^t   Shockley, E ^s   Silva, M ^f   Simgen, H ^k   Sivers, M V ^m,x   Stein, A ^v   Thapa, S ^s   Thers, D ^o   Tiseni, A ^b   Trinchero, G ^r   Tunnell, C ^s   Vargas, M ^q   Upole, N ^s   Wang, H ^v   Wang, Z ^c   Wei, Y ^h   Weinheimer, C ^q   Wulf, J ^h   Ye, J ^p   Zhang, Y ^a   Zhu, T ^a   more..

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c LABORATORI NAZIONALI DEL GRAN SASSO   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^e JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^g NEW YORK UNIVERSITY ABU DHABI   (United Arab Emirates)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

ⁱ STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^j Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

^k MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR KERNPHYSIK   (Germany)

^l WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^m UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

ⁿ PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^o UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

^p UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^q UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^r SEZIONE DI TORINO   (Italy)

^s UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^t RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^u UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^v UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^w UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^x Quinta da Nora   (Portugal)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIQUEFIED GASES;

DARK MATTER DETECTORS; DARK MATTER SEARCHES; DUAL PHASE; ENERGY RANGES; PROFILE LIKELIHOOD; TIME PROJECTION CHAMBERS; WEAKLY INTERACTING MASSIVE PARTICLES;

GALAXIES;

EID: 85032739416     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.181301     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. S. Dodelson, Modern Cosmology (Academic Press, Amsterdam, 2003).
2. E. W. Kolb and M. S. Turner, The early Universe, Front. Phys. 69, 1 (1990). FRPHAY 2296-424X
3. P. A. R. Ade (Planck Collaboration), Planck 2015 results. XIII. Cosmological parameters, Astron. Astrophys. 594, A13 (2016). AAEJAF 0004-6361 10.1051/0004-6361/201525830
4. G. Jungman, M. Kamionkowski, and K. Griest, Supersymmetric dark matter, Phys. Rep. 267, 195 (1996). PRPLCM 0370-1573 10.1016/0370-1573(95)00058-5
5. M. W. Goodman and E. Witten, Detectability of certain dark-matter candidates, Phys. Rev. D 31, 3059 (1985). PRVDAQ 0556-2821 10.1103/PhysRevD.31.3059
6. T. Marrodán Undagoitia and L. Rauch, Dark matter direct-detection experiments, J. Phys. G 43, 013001 (2016). JPGPED 0954-3899 10.1088/0954-3899/43/1/013001
7. E. Aprile (XENON Collaboration), Design and performance of the XENON10 dark matter experiment, Astropart. Phys. 34, 679 (2011). APHYEE 0927-6505 10.1016/j.astropartphys.2011.01.006
8. E. Aprile (XENON100 Collaboration), The XENON100 dark matter experiment, Astropart. Phys. 35, 573 (2012). APHYEE 0927-6505 10.1016/j.astropartphys.2012.01.003
9. E. Aprile (XENON Collaboration), Physics reach of the XENON1T dark matter experiment, J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys. 04 (2016) 027. JCAPBP 1475-7516 10.1088/1475-7516/2016/04/027
10. E. Aprile (XENON1T Collaboration), Conceptual design and simulation of a water Cherenkov muon veto for the XENON1T experiment, J. Instrum. 9, P11006 (2014). JIONAS 1748-0221 10.1088/1748-0221/9/11/P11006
11. E. Aprile (XENON Collaboration), Lowering the radioactivity of the photomultiplier tubes for the XENON1T dark matter experiment, Eur. Phys. J. C 75, 546 (2015). EPCFFB 1434-6044 10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3657-5
12. P. Barrow, Qualification tests of the R11410-21 photomultiplier tubes for the XENON1T detector, J. Instrum. 12, P01024 (2017). JIONAS 1748-0221 10.1088/1748-0221/12/01/P01024
13. B. Edwards (ZEPLIN-II Collaboration), Measurement of single electron emission in two-phase xenon, Astropart. Phys. 30, 54 (2008). APHYEE 0927-6505 10.1016/j.astropartphys.2008.06.006
14. E. Aprile (XENON100 Collaboration), Observation and applications of single-electron charge signals in the XENON100 experiment, J. Phys. G 41, 035201 (2014). JPGPED 0954-3899 10.1088/0954-3899/41/3/035201
15. R. Saldanha, L. Grandi, Y. Guardincerri, and T. Wester, Model independent approach to the single photoelectron calibration of photomultiplier tubes, Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res., Sect. A 863, 35 (2017). NIMAER 0168-9002 10.1016/j.nima.2017.02.086
16. E. Aprile (XENON Collaboration), Removing krypton from xenon by cryogenic distillation to the (Equation presented) level, Eur. Phys. J. C 77, 275 (2017). EPCFFB 1434-6044 10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-4757-1
17. S. Lindemann and H. Simgen, Krypton assay in xenon at the (Equation presented) level using a gas chromatographic system and mass spectrometer, Eur. Phys. J. C 74, 2746 (2014). EPCFFB 1434-6044 10.1140/epjc/s10052-014-2746-1
18. E. Aprile (XENON Collaboration), Online (Equation presented) removal by cryogenic distillation in the XENON100 experiment, Eur. Phys. J. C 77, 358 (2017). EPCFFB 1434-6044 10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-4902-x
19. E. Aprile (XENON Collaboration), Results from a calibration of XENON100 using a source of dissolved radon-220, Phys. Rev. D 95, 072008 (2017). PRVDAQ 2470-0010 10.1103/PhysRevD.95.072008
20. C. E. Dahl, Ph.D. thesis, Princeton University, 2009.
21. D. S. Akerib (LUX Collaboration), Tritium calibration of the LUX dark matter experiment, Phys. Rev. D 93, 072009 (2016). PRVDAQ 2470-0010 10.1103/PhysRevD.93.072009
22. B. Lenardo, K. Kazkaz, A. Manalaysay, J. Mock, M. Szydagis, and M. Tripathi, A global analysis of light and charge yields in liquid xenon, IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. 62, 3387 (2015). IETNAE 0018-9499 10.1109/TNS.2015.2481322
23. E. Aprile (XENON Collaboration), XENON100 dark matter results from a combination of 477 live days, Phys. Rev. D 94, 122001 (2016). PRVDAQ 2470-0010 10.1103/PhysRevD.94.122001
24. P. Sorensen, Electron train backgrounds in liquid xenon dark matter search detectors are indeed due to thermalization and trapping, arXiv:1702.04805.
25. G. Cowan, K. Cranmer, E. Gross, and O. Vitells, Asymptotic formulae for likelihood-based tests of new physics, Eur. Phys. J. C 71, 1554 (2011); EPCFFB 1434-6044 10.1140/epjc/s10052-011-1554-0
26. G. Cowan, K. Cranmer, E. Gross, and O. Vitells Erratum Eur. Phys. J. C 73, 2501(E) (2013). EPCFFB 1434-6044 10.1140/epjc/s10052-013-2501-z
27. N. Priel, L. Rauch, H. Landsman, A. Manfredini, and R. Budnik, A model independent safeguard for unbinned likelihood, J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys. 05 (2017) 013. JCAPBP 1475-7516 10.1088/1475-7516/2017/05/013
28. D. S. Akerib (LUX Collaboration), Results from a Search for Dark Matter in the Complete LUX Exposure, Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 021303 (2017). PRLTAO 0031-9007 10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.021303
29. A. Tan (PandaX-II Collaboration), Dark Matter Results from First 98.7-day Data of PandaX-II Experiment, Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 121303 (2016). PRLTAO 0031-9007 10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.121303
30. G. Cowan, K. Cranmer, E. Gross, and O. Vitells, Power-constrained limits, arXiv:1105.3166.
31. J. Lewin and P. Smith, Review of mathematics, numerical factors, and corrections for dark matter experiments based on elastic nuclear recoil, Astropart. Phys. 6, 87 (1996). APHYEE 0927-6505 10.1016/S0927-6505(96)00047-3