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Phys Rev Lett. 2008 Aug 29;101(9):091301. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.091301. Epub 2008 Aug 29.

Limits on spin-dependent WIMP-nucleon cross sections from the XENON10 experiment.

Physical review letters

J Angle, E Aprile, F Arneodo, L Baudis, A Bernstein, A Bolozdynya, L C C Coelho, C E Dahl, L DeViveiros, A D Ferella, L M P Fernandes, S Fiorucci, R J Gaitskell, K L Giboni, R Gomez, R Hasty, L Kastens, J Kwong, J A M Lopes, N Madden, A Manalaysay, A Manzur, D N McKinsey, M E Monzani, K Ni, U Oberlack, J Orboeck, G Plante, R Santorelli, J M F dos Santos, P Shagin, T Shutt, P Sorensen, S Schulte, C Winant, M Yamashita,

Affiliations

  1. Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA.

PMID: 18851599 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.091301

Abstract

XENON10 is an experiment to directly detect weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), which may comprise the bulk of the nonbaryonic dark matter in our Universe. We report new results for spin-dependent WIMP-nucleon interactions with 129Xe and 131Xe from 58.6 live days of operation at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso. Based on the nonobservation of a WIMP signal in 5.4 kg of fiducial liquid xenon mass, we exclude previously unexplored regions in the theoretically allowed parameter space for neutralinos. We also exclude a heavy Majorana neutrino with a mass in the range of approximately 10 GeV/c2-2 TeV/c2 as a dark matter candidate under standard assumptions for its density and distribution in the galactic halo.

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