1. Search for light dark matter with NEWS-G at the LSM using a methane target
- Author
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Arora, M. M., Balogh, L., Beaufort, C., Brossard, A., Chapellier, M., Clarke, J., Corcoran, E. C., Coquillat, J. -M., Dastgheibi-Fard, A., Deng, Y., Durnford, D., Garrah, C., Gerbier, G., Giomataris, I., Giroux, G., Gorel, P., Gros, M., Gros, P., Guillaudin, O., Hoppe, E. W., Katsioulas, I., Kelly, F., Knights, P., Lautridou, P., Makowski, A., Manthos, I., Martin, R. D., Matthews, J., McCallum, H. M., Meadows, H., Millins, L., Muraz, J. -F., Neep, T., Nikolopoulos, K., Panchal, N., Piro, M. -C., Rowe, N., Santos, D., Savvidis, G., Savvidis, I., Spathara, D., Fernandez, F. Vazquez de Sola, and Ward, R.
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High Energy Physics - Experiment ,Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics - Abstract
The NEWS-G direct detection experiment uses spherical proportional counters to search for light dark matter candidates. New results from a 10 day physics run with a $135\,\mathrm{cm}$ in diameter spherical proportional counter at the Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane are reported. The target consists of $114\,\mathrm{g}$ of methane, providing sensitivity to dark matter spin-dependent coupling to protons. New constraints are presented in the mass range $0.17$ to $1.2\,\mathrm{GeV/c^2}$, with a 90% confidence level cross-section upper limit of $30.9\,\mathrm{pb}$ for a mass of $0.76\,\mathrm{GeV/c^2}$., Comment: 7 pages, 3 figures
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- 2024