1. Limits on spin-dependent WIMP-nucleon cross sections from 225 live days of XENON100 data
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Marc Schumann, P. Shagin, A. Behrens, Ehud Duchovni, E. Pantic, M. Messina, J. A. M. Lopes, A. Kish, M. Garbini, K. Arisaka, Jean-Pierre Cussonneau, Hardy Simgen, A. D. Ferella, D. Thers, Boris Bauermeister, R. F. Lang, João Cardoso, K. Lung, A. P. Colijn, T. Marrodán Undagoitia, Ch. Weinheimer, Laura Baudis, Hui Wang, F. Gao, M. P. Decowski, Manfred Lindner, C. Ghag, C. Levy, M. Selvi, W. T. Chen, J. Lamblin, H. Landsman, Daniel Lellouch, P. R. Scovell, H. Contreras, P. Beltrame, Florian Kaether, Kaixuan Ni, Ran Budnik, F. V. Massoli, A. Molinario, Qing Lin, B. Choi, J.M.F. dos Santos, L. Scotto Lavina, Sebastian Lindemann, S. Rosendahl, S. Fattori, A. Teymourian, N. Priel, C. Balan, W. Hampel, Karl Giboni, W. Fulgione, Ethan Brown, Elena Aprile, F. Arneodo, April S. Brown, Uwe Oberlack, K. E. Lim, Jochen Schreiner, C. Grignon, A. J. Melgarejo Fernandez, M. Le Calloch, M. Alfonsi, O. Vitells, A. Rizzo, S. E. A. Orrigo, Y. Meng, Giacomo Bruno, G. Sartorelli, M. Weber, G. Plante, Luke Goetzke, K. Bokeloh, E. K. U. Gross, R. Persiani, Astroparticle Physics (IHEF, IoP, FNWI), Laboratoire SUBATECH Nantes (SUBATECH), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Nantes (UN)-Mines Nantes (Mines Nantes), XENON100, E. Aprile, M. Alfonsi, K. Arisaka, F. Arneodo, C. Balan, L. Baudi, B. Bauermeister, A. Behren, P. Beltrame, K. Bokeloh, A. Brown, E. Brown, G. Bruno, R. Budnik, J. M. R. Cardoso, W.-T. Chen, B. Choi, A. P. Colijn, H. Contrera, J. P. Cussonneau, M. P. Decowski, E. Duchovni, S. Fattori, A. D. Ferella, W. Fulgione, F. Gao, M. Garbini, C. Ghag, K.-L. Giboni, L. W. Goetzke, C. Grignon, E. Gro, W. Hampel, F. Kaether, A. Kish, J. Lamblin, H. Landsman, R. F. Lang, M. Le Calloch, D. Lellouch, C. Levy, K. E. Lim, Q. Lin, S. Lindemann, M. Lindner, J. A. M. Lope, K. Lung, T. Marrodán Undagoitia, F. V. Massoli, A. J. Melgarejo Fernandez, Y. Meng, M. Messina, A. Molinario, K. Ni, U. Oberlack, S. E. A. Orrigo, E. Pantic, R. Persiani, G. Plante, N. Priel, A. Rizzo, S. Rosendahl, J. M. F. dos Santo, G. Sartorelli, J. Schreiner, M. Schumann, L. Scotto Lavina, P. R. Scovell, M. Selvi, P. Shagin, H. Simgen, A. Teymourian, D. Ther, O. Vitell, H. Wang, M. Weber, C. Weinheimer, and XENON100 collaboration
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Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO) ,[PHYS.ASTR.IM]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM] ,Dark matter ,General Physics and Astronomy ,FOS: Physical sciences ,01 natural sciences ,dark matter ,Particle detector ,High Energy Physics - Experiment ,Nuclear physics ,Cross section (physics) ,High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) ,High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) ,WIMP ,0103 physical sciences ,[PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex] ,010306 general physics ,Pseudovector ,Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) ,Spin-½ ,Physics ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,[SDU.ASTR.IM]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM] ,High Energy Physics - Phenomenology ,[PHYS.HPHE]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Phenomenology [hep-ph] ,Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics ,Nucleon ,Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics - Abstract
We present new experimental constraints on the elastic, spin-dependent WIMP-nucleon cross section using recent data from the XENON100 experiment, operated in the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Italy. An analysis of 224.6 live days x 34 kg of exposure acquired during 2011 and 2012 revealed no excess signal due to axial-vector WIMP interactions with 129-Xe and 131-Xe nuclei. This leads to the most stringent upper limits on WIMP-neutron cross sections for WIMP masses above 6 GeV, with a minimum cross section of 3.5 x 10^{-40} cm^2 at a WIMP mass of 45 GeV, at 90% confidence level., Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures; corrected caption of figure 3
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- 2013
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