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New constraints on ultraheavy dark matter from the LZ experiment

Published:2024-06-11 Issue:11 Volume:109 Page:
ISSN:2470-0010
Container-title:Physical Review D
language:en
Short-container-title:Phys. Rev. D

Author:

Aalbers J.¹²,Akerib D. S.¹²,Al Musalhi A. K.³,Alder F.³,Amarasinghe C. S.⁴⁵,Ames A.¹²,Anderson T. J.¹²,Angelides N.⁶,Araújo H. M.⁶,Armstrong J. E.⁷,Arthurs M.¹²,Baker A.⁶,Balashov S.⁸,Bang J.⁹,Barillier E. E.⁵¹⁰,Bargemann J. W.⁴,Baxter A.¹¹,Beattie K.¹²,Benson T.¹³,Bhatti A.⁷,Biekert A.¹²¹⁴,Biesiadzinski T. P.¹²,Birch H. J.⁵¹⁰,Bishop E. J.¹⁵,Blockinger G. M.¹⁶,Boxer B.⁴,Brew C. A. J.⁸,Brás P.¹⁷,Burdin S.¹¹,Buuck M.¹²,Carmona-Benitez M. C.¹⁸,Carter M.¹¹,Chawla A.¹⁹,Chen H.¹²,Cherwinka J. J.¹³,Chin Y. T.¹⁸,Chott N. I.²⁰,Converse M. V.²¹,Cottle A.³,Cox G.²²,Curran D.²²,Dahl C. E.²³²⁴,David A.³,Delgaudio J.²²,Dey S.²⁵,de Viveiros L.¹⁸,Di Felice L.⁶,Ding C.⁹,Dobson J. E. Y.²⁶,Druszkiewicz E.²¹,Eriksen S. R.²⁷,Fan A.¹²,Fearon N. M.²⁵,Fiorucci S.¹²,Flaecher H.²⁷,Fraser E. D.¹¹,Fruth T. M. A.²⁸,Gaitskell R. J.⁹,Geffre A.²²,Genovesi J.²⁰,Ghag C.³,Gibbons R.¹²¹⁴,Gokhale S.²⁹,Green J.²⁵,van der Grinten M. G. D.⁸,Haiston J. H.²⁰,Hall C. R.⁷,Han S.¹²,Hartigan-O’Connor E.⁹,Haselschwardt S. J.¹²,Hernandez M. A.⁵¹⁰,Hertel S. A.³⁰,Heuermann G.⁵,Homenides G. J.³¹,Horn M.²²,Huang D. Q.⁵,Hunt D.²⁵,Ignarra C. M.¹²,Jacquet E.⁶,James R. S.³,Johnson J.⁴,Kaboth A. C.¹⁹,Kamaha A. C.³²,Kannichankandy M.¹⁶,Khaitan D.²¹,Khazov A.⁸,Khurana I.³,Kim J.⁴,Kingston J.⁴,Kirk R.⁹,Kodroff D.¹⁸¹²,Korley L.⁵,Korolkova E. V.³³,Kraus H.²⁵,Kravitz S.¹²³⁴,Kreczko L.²⁷,Krikler B.²⁷,Kudryavtsev V. A.³³,Lee J.³⁵,Leonard D. S.³⁵,Lesko K. T.¹²,Levy C.¹⁶,Lin J.¹²¹⁴,Lindote A.¹⁷,Linehan R.¹²,Lippincott W. H.⁴,Lopes M. I.¹⁷,Lopez Asamar E.¹⁷,Lorenzon W.⁵,Lu C.⁹,Luitz S.¹,Majewski P. A.⁸,Manalaysay A.¹²,Mannino R. L.³⁶,Maupin C.²²,McCarthy M. E.²¹,McDowell G.⁵,McKinsey D. N.¹²¹⁴,McLaughlin J.²³,McLaughlin J. B.³,McMonigle R.¹⁶,Miller E. H.¹²,Mizrachi E.⁷³⁶,Monte A.⁴,Monzani M. E.¹²³⁷,Morales Mendoza J. D.¹²,Morrison E.²⁰,Mount B. J.³⁸,Murdy M.³⁰,Murphy A. St. J.¹⁵,Naylor A.³³,Nedlik C.³⁰,Nelson H. N.⁴,Neves F.¹⁷,Nguyen A.¹⁵,Nikoleyczik J. A.¹³,Olcina I.¹²¹⁴^ORCID,Oliver-Mallory K. C.⁶,Orpwood J.³³,Palladino K. J.²⁵,Palmer J.¹⁹,Pannifer N. J.²⁷,Parveen N.¹⁶,Patton S. J.¹²,Penning B.⁵¹⁰,Pereira G.¹⁷,Perry E.³,Pershing T.³⁶,Piepke A.³¹,Qie Y.²¹,Reichenbacher J.²⁰,Rhyne C. A.⁹,Riffard Q.¹²,Rischbieter G. R. C.⁵¹⁰,Riyat H. S.¹⁵,Rosero R.²⁹,Rushton T.³³,Rynders D.²²,Santone D.¹⁹,Sazzad A. B. M. R.³¹,Schnee R. W.²⁰,Shaw S.¹⁵,Shutt T.¹²,Silk J. J.⁷,Silva C.¹⁷,Sinev G.²⁰,Siniscalco J.³,Smith R.¹²¹⁴^ORCID,Solovov V. N.¹⁷,Sorensen P.¹²,Soria J.¹²¹⁴,Stancu I.³¹,Stevens A.³⁶,Stifter K.²⁴,Suerfu B.¹²¹⁴,Sumner T. J.⁶,Szydagis M.¹⁶,Taylor W. C.⁹,Tiedt D. R.²²,Timalsina M.¹²²⁰,Tong Z.⁶,Tovey D. R.³³,Tranter J.³³,Trask M.⁴,Tripathi M.⁴,Tronstad D. R.²⁰,Turner W.¹¹,Vacheret A.⁶,Vaitkus A. C.⁹,Valentino O.⁶,Velan V.¹²,Wang A.¹²,Wang J. J.³¹,Wang Y.¹²¹⁴,Watson J. R.¹²¹⁴,Webb R. C.³⁹,Weeldreyer L.³¹,Whitis T. J.⁴,Williams M.⁵,Wisniewski W. J.¹,Wolfs F. L. H.²¹,Woodford S.¹¹,Woodward D.¹⁸¹²,Wright C. J.²⁷,Xia Q.¹²,Xiang X.⁹²⁹,Xu J.¹⁷,Yeh M.²⁹,Zweig E. A.³²,

Affiliation:

1. SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

2. Stanford University

3. University College London (UCL)

4. University of California

5. University of Michigan

6. Imperial College London

7. University of Maryland

8. STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL)

9. Brown University

10. University of Zurich

11. University of Liverpool

12. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)

13. University of Wisconsin-Madison

14. University of California, Berkeley

15. University of Edinburgh

16. University at Albany (SUNY)

17. University of Coimbra

18. Pennsylvania State University

19. University of London

20. South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

21. University of Rochester

22. South Dakota Science and Technology Authority (SDSTA)

23. Northwestern University

24. Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL)

25. University of Oxford

26. King’s College London

27. University of Bristol

28. The University of Sydney

29. Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL)

30. University of Massachusetts

31. University of Alabama

32. University of Califonia

33. University of Sheffield

34. University of Texas at Austin

35. IBS Center for Underground Physics (CUP)

36. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)

37. Vatican Observatory

38. Black Hills State University

39. Texas A&M University

Abstract

Searches for dark matter with liquid xenon time projection chamber experiments have traditionally focused on the region of the parameter space that is characteristic of weakly interacting massive particles, ranging from a few GeV/c2 to a few TeV/c2. Models of dark matter with a mass much heavier than this are well motivated by early production mechanisms different from the standard thermal freeze-out, but they have generally been less explored experimentally. In this work, we present a reanalysis of the first science run of the LZ experiment, with an exposure of 0.9 tonne×yr, to search for ultraheavy particle dark matter. The signal topology consists of multiple energy deposits in the active region of the detector forming a straight line, from which the velocity of the incoming particle can be reconstructed on an event-by-event basis. Zero events with this topology were observed after applying the data selection calibrated on a simulated sample of signal-like events. New experimental constraints are derived, which rule out previously unexplored regions of the dark matter parameter space of spin-independent interactions beyond a mass of 1017 GeV/c2.

Published by the American Physical Society

2024

Funder

U.S. Department of Energy

Office of Science

High Energy Physics

National Science Foundation

UK Research and Innovation

Science and Technology Facilities Council

Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

Institute for Basic Science

Imperial College London