We present the first search for bosonic superweakly interacting massive particles (super-WIMPs) as keV-scale dark matter candidates performed with the GERDA experiment. GERDA is a neutrinoless double-beta decay experiment which operates high-purity germanium detectors enriched in Ge-76 in an ultralow background environment at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS) of INFN in Italy. Searches were performed for pseudoscalar and vector particles in the mass region from 60 keV/c(2) to 1 MeV/c(2). No evidence for a dark matter signal was observed, and the most stringent constraints on the couplings of super-WIMPS with masses above 120 keV/c(2) have been set. As an example, at a mass of 150 keV/c(2) the most stringent direct limits on the dimensionless couplings of axionlike particles and dark photons to electrons of g(ae) < 3 x 10 -12 and alpha'/alpha < 6.5 x 10(-24) at 90% credible interval, respectively, were obtained.
First Search for Bosonic Superweakly Interacting Massive Particles with Masses up to 1 MeV/c2 with GERDA / M. Agostini, A. . Bakalyarov, M. Balata, I. Barabanov, L. Baudis, C. Bauer, E. Bellotti, S. Belogurov, A. Bettini, L. Bezrukov, D. Borowicz, E. Bossio, V. Bothe, V. Brudanin, R. Brugnera, A. Caldwell, C. Cattadori, A. Chernogorov, T. Comellato, V. D’Andrea, E. . Demidova, N. Di Marco, E. Doroshkevich, V. Egorov, F. Fischer, M. Fomina, A. Gangapshev, A. Garfagnini, C. Gooch, P. Grabmayr, V. Gurentsov, K. Gusev, J. Hakenmüller, S. Hemmer, R. Hiller, W. Hofmann, M. Hult, L. . Inzhechik, J. Janicskó Csáthy, J. Jochum, M. Junker, V. Kazalov, Y. Kermaïdic, H. Khushbakht, T. Kihm, I. . Kirpichnikov, A. Klimenko, R. Kneißl, K. . Knöpfle, O. Kochetov, V. . Kornoukhov, P. Krause, V. . Kuzminov, M. Laubenstein, A. Lazzaro, M. Lindner, I. Lippi, A. Lubashevskiy, B. Lubsandorzhiev, G. Lutter, C. Macolino, B. Majorovits, W. Maneschg, M. Miloradovic, R. Mingazheva, M. Misiaszek, P. Moseev, I. Nemchenok, K. Panas, L. Pandola, K. Pelczar, L. Pertoldi, P. Piseri, A. Pullia, C. Ransom, L. Rauscher, S. Riboldi, N. Rumyantseva, C. Sada, F. Salamida, S. Schönert, J. Schreiner, M. Schütt, A. Schütz, O. Schulz, M. Schwarz, B. Schwingenheuer, O. Selivanenko, E. Shevchik, M. Shirchenko, H. Simgen, A. Smolnikov, D. Stukov, A. . Vasenko, A. Veresnikova, C. Vignoli, K. von Sturm, T. Wester, C. Wiesinger, M. Wojcik, E. Yanovich, B. Zatschler, I. Zhitnikov, S. . Zhukov, D. Zinatulina, A. Zschocke, A. . Zsigmond, K. Zuber, G. Zuzel. - In: PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS. - ISSN 0031-9007. - 125:1(2020 Jul 01), pp. 011801.011801-1-011801.011801-6. [10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.011801]
First Search for Bosonic Superweakly Interacting Massive Particles with Masses up to 1 MeV/c2 with GERDA
P. Piseri;A. Pullia;S. Riboldi;
2020
Abstract
We present the first search for bosonic superweakly interacting massive particles (super-WIMPs) as keV-scale dark matter candidates performed with the GERDA experiment. GERDA is a neutrinoless double-beta decay experiment which operates high-purity germanium detectors enriched in Ge-76 in an ultralow background environment at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS) of INFN in Italy. Searches were performed for pseudoscalar and vector particles in the mass region from 60 keV/c(2) to 1 MeV/c(2). No evidence for a dark matter signal was observed, and the most stringent constraints on the couplings of super-WIMPS with masses above 120 keV/c(2) have been set. As an example, at a mass of 150 keV/c(2) the most stringent direct limits on the dimensionless couplings of axionlike particles and dark photons to electrons of g(ae) < 3 x 10 -12 and alpha'/alpha < 6.5 x 10(-24) at 90% credible interval, respectively, were obtained.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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