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The World's Most Sensitive Dark Matter Detector Is Now Up and Running

2 pointsby jaboutboulalmost 8 years ago

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_rpdalmost 8 years ago
Here&#x27;s the XENON1T &quot;first results&quot; paper ...<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;1705.06655" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;1705.06655</a><p>&gt; We report the first dark matter search results from XENON1T, a 2000-kg-target-mass dual-phase (liquid-gas) xenon time projection chamber in operation at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Italy and the first ton-scale detector of this kind. The blinded search used 34.2 live days of data acquired between November 2016 and January 2017. Inside the (104212) kg fiducial mass and in the [5, 40] energy range of interest for WIMP dark matter searches, the electronic recoil background was events&#x2F;(kg day ), the lowest ever achieved in a dark matter detector. A profile likelihood analysis shows that the data is consistent with the background-only hypothesis. We derive the most stringent exclusion limits on the spin-independent WIMP-nucleon interaction cross section for WIMP masses above 10 GeV&#x2F;c, with a minimum of 7.7 cm for 35-GeV&#x2F;c WIMPs at 90% confidence level.