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Article Dans Une Revue Physical Review Letters Année : 2023

Search for dark-matter–Nucleon interactions via Migdal effect with DarkSide-50

P. Agnes (1) , I. F. M. Albuquerque (2) , T. Alexander (3) , A. K. Alton (4) , M. Ave (2) , H. O. Back (3) , G. Batignani (5) , K. Biery (6) , V. Bocci (7) , W. M. Bonivento (8) , B. Bottino (9) , S. Bussino (7) , M. Cadeddu (8) , M. Cadoni (10) , F. Calaprice (11) , A. Caminata (12) , M. D. Campos (13) , N. Canci (14) , M. Caravati (8) , N. Cargioli (8) , M. Cariello (12) , M. Carlini (14) , V. Cataudella (15) , P. Cavalcante (16) , S. Cavuoti (15) , S. Chashin (17) , A. Chepurnov (17) , C. Cicalò (8) , G. Covone (15) , D. D’angelo (18) , S. Davini (12) , A. de Candia (15) , S. De Cecco (7) , G. de Filippis (15) , G. De Rosa (15) , A. V. Derbin (19) , A. Devoto (10) , M. D’incecco (14) , C. Dionisi (7) , F. Dordei (8) , M. Downing (20) , D. D’urso (21) , G. Fiorillo (15) , D. Franco (22) , F. Gabriele (8) , C. Galbiati (11) , C. Ghiano (14) , C. Giganti (23) , G. K. Giovanetti (24) , A. M. Goretti (14) , G. Grilli Di Cortona (25) , A. Grobov (26) , M. Gromov (17) , M. Guan (27) , M. Gulino (28) , B. R. Hackett (3) , K. Herner (6) , T. Hessel (22) , B. Hosseini (8) , F. Hubaut (29) , E. V. Hungerford (30) , An. Ianni (11) , V. Ippolito (7) , K. Keeter (31) , C. L. Kendziora (6) , M. Kimura (32) , I. Kochanek (14) , D. Korablev (33) , G. Korga (34) , A. Kubankin (35) , M. Kuss (5) , M. La Commara (15) , M. Lai (10) , X. Li (11) , M. Lissia (8) , G. Longo (15) , O. Lychagina (33) , I. N. Machulin (26) , L. P. Mapelli (36) , S. M. Mari (7) , J. Maricic (37) , A. Messina (7) , R. Milincic (37) , J. Monroe (1) , M. Morrocchi (5) , Xavier Mougeot (38) , V. N. Muratova (19) , P. Musico (12) , A. O. Nozdrina (26) , A. Oleinik (35) , F. Ortica (39) , L. Pagani (36) , M. Pallavicini (9) , L. Pandola (40) , E. Pantic (36) , E. Paoloni (5) , K. Pelczar (14) , N. Pelliccia (39) , S. Piacentini (7) , A. Pocar (41) , D. M. Poehlmann (42) , S. Pordes (6) , S. S. Poudel (34) , P. Pralavorio (29) , D. D. Price (43) , F. Ragusa (18) , M. Razeti (8) , A. Razeto (14) , A. L. Renshaw (34) , M. Rescigno (7) , J. Rode (23, 22) , A. Romani (39) , D. Sablone (11) , O. Samoylov (33) , W. Sands (11) , S. Sanfilippo (44) , E. Sandford (43) , C. Savarese (11) , B. Schlitzer (36) , D. A. Semenov (19) , A. Shchagin (35) , A. Sheshukov (33) , M. D. Skorokhvatov (26) , O. Smirnov (33) , A. Sotnikov (33) , S. Stracka (5) , Y. Suvorov (15) , R. Tartaglia (14) , G. Testera (12) , A. Tonazzo (22) , E. V. Unzhakov (19) , A. Vishneva (33) , R. B. Vogelaar (16) , M. Wada (32) , H. Wang (36) , Y. Wang (36) , S. Westerdale (11) , M. M. Wojcik (45) , X. Xiao (36) , C. Yang (27) , G. Zuzel (45) , M. Fairbairn (13)
1 RHUL - Royal Holloway [University of London]
2 USP - Universidade de São Paulo = University of São Paulo
3 PNNL - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
4 USD - University of South Dakota [Vermillion]
5 INFN - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare [Pisa]
6 Fermilab - Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
7 INFN - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare [Sezione di Roma 1]
8 INFN, Sezione di Cagliari - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Cagliari
9 UniGe - Università degli studi di Genova = University of Genoa
10 UniCa - Università degli Studi di Cagliari = University of Cagliari
11 Princeton University
12 INFN, Sezione di Genova - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Genova
13 King‘s College London
14 LNGS - Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso
15 University of Naples Federico II = Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II
16 Virginia Tech [Blacksburg]
17 SINP - D.V. Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics
18 UNIMI - Università degli Studi di Milano = University of Milan
19 Saint Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute RAS
20 UMASS - University of Massachusetts System
21 UNISS - Università degli Studi di Sassari = University of Sassari [Sassari]
22 APC (UMR_7164) - AstroParticule et Cosmologie
23 LPNHE (UMR_7585) - Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies
24 DPPU - Department of Physics, Princeton University
25 INFN Frascati
26 Institute of Molecular Genetics of National Research Centre «Kurchatov Institute» [Moscow, Russia]
27 IHEP - Institute of High Energy Physics [Beijing]
28 Università degli Studi di Enna " KORE " = Kore University of Enna
29 CPPM - Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille
30 University of Houston [Clear Lake]
31 Black Hills State University
32 AstroCeNT - Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Cente
33 JINR - Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
34 University of Houston
35 Belgorod National Research University
36 UC - University of California
37 University of Hawai'i [Hilo]
38 LNHB (CEA, LIST) - Laboratoire National Henri Becquerel (CEA, LIST)
39 UNIPG - Università degli Studi di Perugia = University of Perugia
40 INFN - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Catania
41 UMass Amherst - University of Massachusetts [Amherst]
42 UC Davis - University of California [Davis]
43 University of Manchester [Manchester]
44 Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata [Roma] = University of Rome Tor Vergata
45 UJ - Uniwersytet Jagielloński w Krakowie = Jagiellonian University
P. Agnes
D. Franco
C. Galbiati
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An. Ianni
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G. Korga
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X. Li
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D. Sablone
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W. Sands
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C. Savarese
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H. Wang
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Y. Wang
  • Fonction : Auteur
X. Xiao
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Résumé

Dark matter elastic scattering off nuclei can result in the excitation and ionization of the recoiling atom through the so-called Migdal effect. The energy deposition from the ionization electron adds to the energy deposited by the recoiling nuclear system and allows for the detection of interactions of sub-GeV/c2 mass dark matter. We present new constraints for sub-GeV/c2 dark matter using the dual-phase liquid argon time projection chamber of the DarkSide-50 experiment with an exposure of (12 306±184)  kg d. The analysis is based on the ionization signal alone and significantly enhances the sensitivity of DarkSide-50, enabling sensitivity to dark matter with masses down to 40  MeV/c2. Furthermore, it sets the most stringent upper limit on the spin independent dark matter nucleon cross section for masses below 3.6  GeV/c2.
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cea-04036877 , version 1 (20-03-2023)

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P. Agnes, I. F. M. Albuquerque, T. Alexander, A. K. Alton, M. Ave, et al.. Search for dark-matter–Nucleon interactions via Migdal effect with DarkSide-50. Physical Review Letters, 2023, 130 (10), pp.101001. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.101001⟩. ⟨cea-04036877⟩
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