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Exotic Dark Matter Search with the Majorana Demonstrator.
- Source :
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Physical review letters [Phys Rev Lett] 2024 Jan 26; Vol. 132 (4), pp. 041001. - Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- With excellent energy resolution and ultralow-level radiogenic backgrounds, the high-purity germanium detectors in the Majorana Demonstrator enable searches for several classes of exotic dark matter (DM) models. In this work, we report new experimental limits on keV-scale sterile neutrino DM via the transition magnetic moment from conversion to active neutrinos ν_{s}→ν_{a}. We report new limits on fermionic dark matter absorption (χ+A→ν+A) and sub-GeV DM-nucleus 3→2 scattering (χ+χ+A→ϕ+A), and new exclusion limits for bosonic dark matter (axionlike particles and dark photons). These searches utilize the (1-100)-keV low-energy region of a 37.5-kg y exposure collected by the Demonstrator between May 2016 and November 2019 using a set of ^{76}Ge-enriched detectors whose surface exposure time was carefully controlled, resulting in extremely low levels of cosmogenic activation.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1079-7114
- Volume :
- 132
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Physical review letters
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 38335333
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.041001