First results from the XENON10 dark matter experiment at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory

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作者
Angle, J. [1 ,2 ]
Aprile, E. [3 ]
Arneodo, F. [4 ]
Baudis, L. [2 ]
Bernstein, A. [5 ]
Bolozdynya, A. [6 ]
Brusov, P. [6 ]
Coelho, L. C. C. [7 ]
Dahl, C. E. [6 ,8 ]
DeViveiros, L. [9 ]
Ferella, A. D. [2 ,4 ]
Fernandes, L. M. P. [7 ]
Fiorucci, S.
Gaitskell, R. J. [9 ]
Giboni, K. L. [3 ]
Gomez, R. [10 ]
Hasty, R. [11 ]
Kastens, L. [11 ]
Kwong, J. [6 ,8 ]
Lopes, J. A. M. [7 ]
Madden, N. [5 ]
Manalaysay, A. [1 ,2 ]
Manzur, A. [11 ]
McKinsey, D. N. [11 ]
Monzani, M. E. [3 ,11 ]
Ni, K.
Oberlack, U. [10 ]
Orboeck, J. [2 ]
Plante, G. [3 ]
Santorelli, R. [3 ]
dos Santos, J. M. F. [7 ]
Shagin, P. [10 ]
Shutt, T. [6 ]
Sorensen, P. [9 ]
Schulte, S. [2 ]
Winant, C. [5 ]
Yamashita, M. [3 ]
机构
[1] Univ Florida, Dept Phys, Gainesville, FL 32611 USA
[2] Rhein Westfal TH Aachen Klinikum, Dept Phys, D-52074 Aachen, Germany
[3] Columbia Univ, Dept Phys, New York, NY 10027 USA
[4] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Lab Nazl Gran Sasso, I-67010 Assergi, Italy
[5] Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab, Livermore, CA 94550 USA
[6] Case Western Reserve Univ, Dept Phys, Cleveland, OH 44106 USA
[7] Univ Coimbra, Dept Phys, P-3004516 Coimbra, Portugal
[8] Princeton Univ, Dept Phys, Princeton, NJ 08540 USA
[9] Brown Univ, Dept Phys, Providence, RI 02912 USA
[10] Rice Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, Houston, TX 77251 USA
[11] Yale Univ, Dept Phys, New Haven, CT 06511 USA
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美国国家科学基金会;
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.021303
中图分类号
O4 [物理学];
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摘要
The XENON10 experiment at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory uses a 15 kg xenon dual phase time projection chamber to search for dark matter weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs). The detector measures simultaneously the scintillation and the ionization produced by radiation in pure liquid xenon to discriminate signal from background down to 4.5 keV nuclear-recoil energy. A blind analysis of 58.6 live days of data, acquired between October 6, 2006, and February 14, 2007, and using a fiducial mass of 5.4 kg, excludes previously unexplored parameter space, setting a new 90% C.L. upper limit for the WIMP-nucleon spin-independent cross section of 8.8x10(-44) cm(2) for a WIMP mass of 100 GeV/c(2), and 4.5x10(-44) cm(2) for a WIMP mass of 30 GeV/c(2). This result further constrains predictions of supersymmetric models.
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