Limits on Spin-Dependent WIMP-Nucleon Cross Section Obtained from the Complete LUX Exposure. Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • We present experimental constraints on the spin-dependent WIMP-nucleon elastic cross sections from the total 129.5kgyr exposure acquired by the Large Underground Xenon experiment (LUX), operating at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota (USA). A profile likelihood ratio analysis allows 90%C.L. upper limits to be set on the WIMP-neutron (WIMP-proton) cross section of _{n}=1.610^{-41}cm^{2} (_{p}=510^{-40}cm^{2}) at 35GeVc^{-2}, almost a sixfold improvement over the previous LUX spin-dependent results. The spin-dependent WIMP-neutron limit is the most sensitive constraint to date.

published proceedings

  • Phys Rev Lett

altmetric score

  • 51.08

author list (cited authors)

  • Akerib, D. S., Alsum, S., Arajo, H. M., Bai, X., Bailey, A. J., Balajthy, J., ... LUX Collaboration.

citation count

  • 118

complete list of authors

  • Akerib, DS||Alsum, S||Araújo, HM||Bai, X||Bailey, AJ||Balajthy, J||Beltrame, P||Bernard, EP||Bernstein, A||Biesiadzinski, TP||Boulton, EM||Brás, P||Byram, D||Cahn, SB||Carmona-Benitez, MC||Chan, C||Chiller, AA||Chiller, C||Currie, A||Cutter, JE||Davison, TJR||Dobi, A||Dobson, JEY||Druszkiewicz, E||Edwards, BN||Faham, CH||Fallon, SR||Fiorucci, S||Gaitskell, RJ||Gehman, VM||Ghag, C||Gilchriese, MGD||Hall, CR||Hanhardt, M||Haselschwardt, SJ||Hertel, SA||Hogan, DP||Horn, M||Huang, DQ||Ignarra, CM||Jacobsen, RG||Ji, W||Kamdin, K||Kazkaz, K||Khaitan, D||Knoche, R||Larsen, NA||Lee, C||Lenardo, BG||Lesko, KT||Lindote, A||Lopes, MI||Manalaysay, A||Mannino, RL||Marzioni, MF||McKinsey, DN||Mei, D-M||Mock, J||Moongweluwan, M||Morad, JA||Murphy, A St J||Nehrkorn, C||Nelson, HN||Neves, F||O'Sullivan, K||Oliver-Mallory, KC||Palladino, KJ||Pease, EK||Reichhart, L||Rhyne, C||Shaw, S||Shutt, TA||Silva, C||Solmaz, M||Solovov, VN||Sorensen, P||Stephenson, S||Sumner, TJ||Szydagis, M||Taylor, DJ||Taylor, WC||Tennyson, BP||Terman, PA||Tiedt, DR||To, WH||Tripathi, M||Tvrznikova, L||Uvarov, S||Velan, V||Verbus, JR||Webb, RC||White, JT||Whitis, TJ||Witherell, MS||Wolfs, FLH||Xu, J||Yazdani, K||Young, SK||Zhang, C

publication date

  • June 2017