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Light dark matter in LUX
A. Manalaysay, May 30, 2015 8
Bob Jacobsen PI, Professor
Murdock Gilchriese Senior Scientist
Kevin Lesko Senior Scientist
Peter Sorensen Scientist
Victor Gehman Scientist
Attila Dobi Postdoc
Daniel Hogan Graduate Student
Mia Ihm Graduate Student
Kate Kamdin Graduate StudentKelsey Oliver-Mallory Graduate Student
The LUX CollaborationRichard Gaitskell PI, Professor
Simon Fiorucci Research Associate
Samuel Chung Chan Graduate Student
Dongqing Huang Graduate Student
Will Taylor Graduate Student
Casey Rhyne Graduate Student
James Verbus Graduate Student
Brown
Thomas Shutt PI, Professor
Dan Akerib PI, Professor
Kim Palladino Project Scientist
Tomasz Biesiadzinski Research Associate
Christina Ignarra Research Associate
Wing To Research Associate
Rosie Bramante Graduate Student
Wei Ji Graduate Student
T.J. Whitis Graduate Student
SLAC Nation Accelerator Laboratory
Lawrence Berkeley + UC Berkeley
Adam Bernstein PI, Leader of Adv. Detectors Grp.
Kareem Kazkaz Staff Physicist
Brian Lenardo Graduate Student
Lawrence Livermore
Xinhua Bai PI, Professor
Doug Tiedt Graduate Student
SD School of Mines
James White † PI, Professor
Robert Webb PI, Professor
Rachel Mannino Graduate Student
Paul Terman Graduate Student
Texas A&M
Mani Tripathi PI, Professor
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Sergey Uvarov Graduate Student
Jacob Cutter Graduate Student
University of Maryland
Carter Hall PI, Professor
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Jon Balajthy Graduate Student
Frank Wolfs PI, Professor
Wojtek Skutski Senior Scientist
Eryk Druszkiewicz Graduate Student
Dev Ashish Khaitan Graduate Student
Mongkol Moongweluwan Graduate Student
University of Rochester
Dongming Mei PI, Professor
Chao Zhang Postdoc
Angela Chiller Graduate Student
Chris Chiller Graduate Student
University of South Dakota
Daniel McKinsey PI, Professor
Ethan Bernard Research Scientist
Markus Horn Research Scientist
Blair Edwards Postdoc
Scott Hertel Postdoc
Kevin O’Sullivan Postdoc
Elizabeth Boulton Graduate Student
Nicole Larsen Graduate Student
Evan Pease Graduate Student
Brian Tennyson Graduate Student
Lucie Tvrznikova Graduate Student
Yale
LIP Coimbra
Isabel Lopes PI, Professor
Jose Pinto da Cunha Assistant Professor
Vladimir Solovov Senior Researcher
Francisco Neves Auxiliary Researcher
Alexander Lindote Postdoc
Claudio Silva Postdoc
UC Santa Barbara
Harry Nelson PI, Professor
Mike Witherell Professor
Susanne Kyre Engineer
Dean White Engineer
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Curt Nehrkorn Graduate Student
Melih Solmaz Graduate Student
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Khadeeja Yazdani Graduate Student
Imperial College London
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Sally Shaw Graduate Student
University College London
Alex Murphy PI, Reader
Paolo Beltrame Research Fellow
James Dobson Postdoc
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Tom Davison Graduate Student
University of Edinburgh
David Taylor Project Engineer
Mark Hanhardt Support Scientist
SDSTA
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SUNY at Albany
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Axions and ALPs may give rise to observable signa-tures in detectors through their coupling to photons(g
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We report on the first axion searches performed withthe XENON100 detector. The expected interaction rateis obtained by the convolution of the flux and the axio-electric cross section. The latter is given, both for QCDaxions and ALPs, by
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II. ANALYSIS
A. XENON100
The XENON100 detector is a double-phase time pro-jection chamber with a LXe target operating at the Lab-oratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS) in Italy. Atotal of 178 low radioactivity, UV-sensitive photomulti-plier tubes (PMTs) measure signals induced by particlesinteracting in the sensitive volume, which contains 62 kgof ultra-pure LXe. An energy deposition in the detectorproduces both scintillation photons and ionization elec-trons. The electrons, moved from the interaction pointby a drift field of 530 V/cm, are extracted from the liquidand accelerated in the gas by a 12 kV/cm field, producingproportional scintillation light. The direct scintillationsignal (S1) and the amplified charge signal (S2) are de-tected by the PMTs. The time di↵erence between the S1and the S2 signals is used to estimate the z-coordinate ofthe interaction, while the S2-hit-pattern on the PMTs isemployed to estimate the (x , y) - coordinate. A detaileddescription of the instrument and its operational princi-ple is given in [19].
The XENON100 detector is installed at LNGS, at anaverage depth of 3600m water equivalent, where themuon flux is suppressed by six orders of magnitude withrespect to sea level. Due to a careful selection of materi-als, the total background in the inner 34 kg fiducial vol-ume is 5.3⇥ 10�3 events/(keV ⇥ kg ⇥ day) [20, 21]. Thisultra low background makes XENON100 sensitive to rareevent searches in general, and in particular for those pro-ducing electronic recoils (ER), as is the case for axions.
B. Data sample and analysis
In this work, we analyse the same data set used for thespin-independent [20] and spin-dependent [22] WIMP-searches, with an exposure of 224.6 live days and 34 kgfiducial mass. Detailed information on the analysis pro-cedure is available in [23]. The same quality and selectioncuts are applied, with the exception of a consistency cuton the S2 width, which was found to be not useful forthis ER analysis.
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The data are compatible with the background model,and no excess is observed for the background onlyhypothesis.Figure 5 shows the new XENON100 exclusion limit on
gAe at 90% C.L. The sensitivity is shown by the green/yellow band (1σ=2σ). As we used the most recent andaccurate calculation for solar axion flux from [10], which isvalid only for light axions, we restrict the search tomA < 1 keV=c2. For comparison, we also present otherrecent experimental constraints [31–33]. Astrophysical
bounds [34–36] and theoretical benchmark models [4–7]are also shown. For solar axions with masses below1 keV=c2, XENON100 is able to set the strongest con-straint on the coupling to electrons, excluding values of gAelarger than 7.7 × 10−12 (90% C.L.).For a specific axion model, the limit on the dimension-
less coupling gAe can be translated to a limit on the axionmass. Within the DFSZ and KSVZ models [4–7],XENON100 excludes axion masses above 0.3 eV=c2
and 80 eV=c2, respectively. For comparison, the CASTexperiment, testing the coupling to photons, gAγ , hasexcluded axions within the KSVZ model in the mass rangebetween 0.64 and 1.17 eV=c2 [37,38].
B. Galactic ALPs
Figure 6 shows the XENON100 data after the selectioncuts in the larger energy region of interest used for thesearch for nonrelativistic galactic ALPs (1422 survivingevents), along with their statistical errors. Also shown is theexpected signal for different ALP masses, assuming acoupling of gAe ¼ 4 × 10−12 and that ALPs constitute allof the galactic dark matter. The width of the monoenergeticsignal is given by the energy resolution of the detector at therelevant S1 signal size [19]. As for the solar axion search,the data are compatible with the background hypothesis,and no excess is observed for the background-only hypoth-esis for the various ALP masses.The XENON100 90% C.L. exclusion limit for galactic
ALPs is shown in Fig. 7, together with other experimentalconstraints [31,39,40]. Astrophysical bounds [34–36] andthe KSVZ benchmark model [6,7] are also presented.The expected sensitivity is shown by the green/yellowbands (1σ=2σ). The steps in the sensitivity around 5 and35 keV=c2 reflect the photoelectric cross section due to
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the atomic energy levels. Below 5 keV=c2 the obtained90% C.L. is higher than expected, deviating by as much as2σ from the mean predicted sensitivity. This is due to aslight excess of events between 3 and 5 PE. A similar effectis responsible for the limit oscillating around the predictedsensitivity above 5 keV=c2. The ALP limit is very sensitiveto fluctuations in individual bins because of the expectedmonoenergetic signal. In the 5–10 keV=c2 mass range,XENON100 sets the best upper limit, excluding an axion-electron coupling gAe > 1 × 10−12 at the 90% C.L., assum-ing that ALPs constitute all of the galactic dark matter.The impact of systematic uncertainties has been evalu-
ated for both analyses presented here. In particular, we haveconsidered the parametrization of the cross section ofthe axioelectric effect, the data selection based on a band
in the log10ðS2b=S1Þ vs S1 space, the choice of the fiducialvolume, as well as the conversion of the S1 signal into anER energy and the energy resolution.Previous works (e.g., [15,32]) have used a different
parametrization of the axion velocity term in σA, while wechose to employ ð1 − β2=3A =3Þ [Eq. (1)], as suggested by[31]. However, we also tested the other assumptions andfound the impact on the final limit to be negligible.Varying the width of the band chosen to select the data
entering the analysis [shown in Fig. 1 (top) as horizontaldashed red lines] from #1σ up to #4σ changes the finalresult on gAe by 5%, i.e., well within the #2σ of thesensitivity band.Similarly, a variation of the fiducial volume has a
negligible impact on the sensitivity: the inner ellipsoidwas changed in size to accomodate between 28 and 40 kg,but maintaining the same 224.6 days of live time. Thereduced background for smaller fiducial masses is com-pensated by the smaller total exposure, resulting in avariation of the limit well below 10%.The uncertainty on the energy scale used for the
conversion from the observed S1 signal in PE into keV[Fig. 2 and Eq. (2)] is taken into account in the profilelikelihood function and is profiled out via the nuisanceparameter t [Eq. (5)]. The detector’s energy resolution isconsidered by smearing the predicted energy spectrumdR=dE by Poisson and Gaussian processes, as described inEq. (7). We note that the final results on gAe are also robustagainst further changes in the energy scale: even if LYðEÞ,as defined in Eq. (2), is varied by 25%, the limits change byless than 5% and about 10% for the solar and for thegalactic axion searches, respectively.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We gratefully acknowledge support from NSF, DOE,SNF, Volkswagen Foundation, FCT, Region des Pays de laLoire, STCSM, NSFC, DFG, MPG, Stichting voorFundamenteel Onderzoek der Materie (FOM), theWeizmann Institute of Science, the EMG research center,and INFN. We are grateful to LNGS for hosting andsupporting XENON100.
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1 keVee , allowing ER band (Fig. 3) and detection effi-ciency calibrations (Fig. 1) with unprecedented accuracy;the tritiated methane is subsequently fully removed bycirculating the xenon through the getter.A 83mKr injection was performed weekly to determine
the free electron lifetime and the three-dimensional cor-rection functions for photon detection efficiency, whichcombine the effects of geometric light collection and PMTquantum efficiency (corrected S1 and S2). The 9.4 and32.1 keV depositions [22] demonstrated the stability ofthe S1 and S2 signals in time, the latter confirmed withmeasurements of the single extracted electron response.131mXe and 129mXe (164 and 236 keV deexcitations)afforded another internal calibration, providing a cross-check of the photon detection and electron extractionefficiencies. To model these efficiencies, we employedfield- and energy-dependent absolute scintillation andionization yields from NEST [23–25], which provides anunderlying physics model, not extrapolations, where onlydetector parameters such as photon detection efficiency,electron extraction efficiency and single electron responseare inputs to the simulation. Using a Gaussian fit to thesingle phe area [26], together with the S1 spectrum oftritium events, the mean S1 photon detection efficiencywas determined to be 0.14! 0.01, varying between 0.11and 0.17 from the top to the bottom of the active region.This is estimated to correspond to 8.8 phe=keVee (electron-
equivalent energy) for 122 keV γ rays at zero field [23].This high photon detection efficiency (unprecedented in axenon WIMP-search TPC) is responsible for the lowthreshold and good discrimination observed [27].Detector response to ER and NR calibration sources is
presented in Fig. 3. Comparison of AmBe data withsimulation permits extraction of NR detection efficiency(Fig. 1), which is in excellent agreement with that obtainedusing other data sets (252Cf and tritium). We describe thepopulations as a function of S1 (Figs. 3 and 4), as thisprovides the dominant component of detector efficiency.We also show contours of approximated constant-energy[28], calculated from a linear combination of S1 and S2[24,27,29] generated by converting the measured pulse areasinto original photons and electrons (given their efficiencies).A parameterization (for S2 at a given S1) of the ER band
from the high-statistics tritiumcalibration is used to character-ize the background. In turn, the NR calibration is morechallenging, partly due to the excellent self-shielding of thedetector. Neutron calibrations therefore include systematiceffects not applicable to the WIMP signal model, such asmultiple-scattering events (including those where scattersoccur in regions of differing field) or coincident Comptonscatters fromAmBeand 252Cf γ raysand(n,γ) reactions.Theseeffects produce the dispersion observed in data, which is wellmodeled in our simulations (in both band mean and width,verifying the simulatedenergy resolution), and larger than thatexpected from WIMP scattering. Consequently, these datacannot be used directly to model a signal distribution. FordifferentWIMPmasses, simulatedS1 andS2 distributions areobtained, accounting for their unique energy spectra.The ratio of keVee to nuclear recoil energy (keVnr) relies
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