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Exotic Dark Matter Search with the Majorana Demonstrator.

Authors :
Arnquist IJ
Avignone FT
Barabash AS
Barton CJ
Bhimani KH
Blalock E
Bos B
Busch M
Buuck M
Caldwell TS
Chan YD
Christofferson CD
Chu PH
Clark ML
Cuesta C
Detwiler JA
Efremenko Y
Ejiri H
Elliott SR
Giovanetti GK
Green MP
Gruszko J
Guinn IS
Guiseppe VE
Haufe CR
Henning R
Hervas Aguilar D
Hoppe EW
Hostiuc A
Kidd MF
Kim I
Kouzes RT
Lannen V TE
Li A
Lopez AM
López-Castaño JM
Martin EL
Martin RD
Massarczyk R
Meijer SJ
Mertens S
Oli TK
Othman G
Paudel LS
Pettus W
Poon AWP
Radford DC
Rager J
Reine AL
Rielage K
Ruof NW
Schaper DC
Tedeschi D
Varner RL
Vasilyev S
Wilkerson JF
Wiseman C
Xu W
Yu CH
Zhu BX
Source :
Physical review letters [Phys Rev Lett] 2024 Jan 26; Vol. 132 (4), pp. 041001.
Publication Year :
2024

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