Search for Light Dark Matter with Ionization Signals in the PandaX-4T Experiment

Shuaijie Li (Tsung-Dao Lee Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China) ; Mengmeng Wu (School of Physics, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China) ; Abdusalam Abdukerim (School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Key Laboratory for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (MoE), Shanghai Key Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology, Shanghai 200240, China) ; Zihao Bo (School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Key Laboratory for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (MoE), Shanghai Key Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology, Shanghai 200240, China) ; Wei Chen (School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Key Laboratory for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (MoE), Shanghai Key Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology, Shanghai 200240, China) ; et al. - Show all 94 authors

We report the search results of light dark matter through its interactions with shell electrons and nuclei, using the commissioning data from the PandaX-4T liquid xenon detector. Low energy events are selected to have an ionization-only signal between 60 to 200 photoelectrons, corresponding to a mean nuclear recoil energy from 0.77 to 2.54 keV and electronic recoil energy from 0.07 to 0.23 keV. With an effective exposure of 0.55 tonneยทyear, we set the most stringent limits within a mass range from 40 MeV/c2 to 10 GeV/c2 for pointlike dark matter-electron interaction, 100 MeV/c2 to 10 GeV/c2 for dark matter-electron interaction via a light mediator, and 3.2 to 4 GeV/c2 for dark matter-nucleon spin-independent interaction. For DM interaction with electrons, our limits are closing in on the parameter space predicted by the freeze-in and freeze-out mechanisms in the early Universe.

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Published on:
27 June 2023
Publisher:
APS
Published in:
Physical Review Letters , Volume 130 (2023)
Issue 26
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.261001
arXiv:
2212.10067
Copyrights:
Published by the American Physical Society
Licence:
CC-BY-4.0

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