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First dark matter results from the XENON100 experiment.
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PMID:  21230760     Owner:  NLM     Status:  In-Process    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
The XENON100 experiment, in operation at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Italy, is designed to search for dark matter weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) scattering off 62 kg of liquid xenon in an ultralow background dual-phase time projection chamber. In this Letter, we present first dark matter results from the analysis of 11.17 live days of nonblind data, acquired in October and November 2009. In the selected fiducial target of 40 kg, and within the predefined signal region, we observe no events and hence exclude spin-independent WIMP-nucleon elastic scattering cross sections above 3.4 × 10⁻⁴⁴  cm² for 55  GeV/c² WIMPs at 90% confidence level. Below 20  GeV/c², this result constrains the interpretation of the CoGeNT and DAMA signals as being due to spin-independent, elastic, light mass WIMP interactions.
Authors:
E Aprile; K Arisaka; F Arneodo; A Askin; L Baudis; A Behrens; K Bokeloh; E Brown; J M R Cardoso; B Choi; D B Cline; S Fattori; A D Ferella; K-L Giboni; A Kish; C W Lam; J Lamblin; R F Lang; K E Lim; J A M Lopes; T Marrodán Undagoitia; Y Mei; A J Melgarejo Fernandez; K Ni; U Oberlack; S E A Orrigo; E Pantic; G Plante; A C C Ribeiro; R Santorelli; J M F Dos Santos; M Schumann; P Shagin; A Teymourian; D Thers; E Tziaferi; H Wang; C Weinheimer;
Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article     Date:  2010-09-20
Journal Detail:
Title:  Physical review letters     Volume:  105     ISSN:  1079-7114     ISO Abbreviation:  Phys. Rev. Lett.     Publication Date:  2010 Sep 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2011-01-14     Completed Date:  -     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  0401141     Medline TA:  Phys Rev Lett     Country:  United States    
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Languages:  eng     Pagination:  131302     Citation Subset:  -    
Affiliation:
Physics Department, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA.
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