First direct detection constraint on mirror dark matter kinetic mixing using LUX 2013 data

Akerib, D. S.; Alsum, S.; Araujo, H.; Bai, X.; Balajthy, J.; Baxter, A.; Bernard, E. P.; Bernstein, Adam; Biesiadzinski, T. P.; Boulton, E. M.; Boxer, B.; Brás, P.; Burdin, S.; Byram, D.; Carmona-Benitez, M. C.; Chan, C.; Cutter, J. E.; Viveiros, L. de; Druszkiewicz, E.; Fan, A.; Fiorucci, S.; Gaitskell, R. J.; Ghag, C.; Gilchriese, M.; Gwilliam, C. B.; Hall, C.; Haselschwardt, S. J.; Hertel, S. A.; Hogan, D. P.; Horn, M.; Huang, Di; Ignarra, C. M.; Jacobsen, R. G.; Jahangir, O.; Ji, W.; Kamdin, K.; Kazkaz, K.; Khaitan, D.; Korolkova, E. V.; Kravitz, S.; Kudryavtsev, V. A.; Leason, E. A.; Lenardo, B. G.; Lesko, K. T.; Liao, J.; Lin, J.; Lindote, A.; Lopes, I.; Manalaysay, A.; Mannino, R. L.; Marangou, N.; Marzioni, M. F.; McKinsey, D. N.; Mei, D. M.; Moongweluwan, M.; Morad, J. A.; Murphy, A. St. J.; Naylor, Andrew; Nehrkorn, C.; Nelson, H. N.; Neves, F.; Nilima, A.; O’Sullivan, K.; Oliver-Mallory, K. C.; Palladino, K. J.; Pease, E. K.; Riffard, Q.; Rischbieter, G. R. C.; Rhyne, C.; Rossiter, P.; Shaw, S.; Shutt, T.; Silva, C.; Solmaz, M.; Solovov, V.; Sørensen, P.; Sumner, T. J.; Szydagis, M.; Taylor, D. J.; Taylor, R.; Taylor, WC; Tennyson, B. P.; Terman, P. A.; Tiedt, D. R.; To, W. H.; Tripathi, M.; Tvrznikova, L.; Utku, U.; Uvarov, S.; Vacheret, A.; Velan, V.; Webb, R.; White, James T.; Whitis, T. J.; Witherell, M. S.; Wolfs, F. L. H.; Woodward, David I.; Xu, J.; Zhang, C.

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“…limit of 6 × 10 −46 cm 2 to SI WIMP-nucleon interactions for WIMPs of mass 33 GeV/c 2 was obtained with this data set [10]. Additional analyses of these data set have been performed, placing limits on SD WIMP-nucleon interactions [12], solar axions, darkmatter axion-like particles [28], mirror dark matter [29], and sub-GeV dark matter [30]. Following the mid-2013 WIMP search campaign, a much longer data set of 332 live-days was acquired between September 2014 and May 2016.…”

Section: The Lux Apparatus and First Dark Matter Searchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Effective field theory analysis of the first LUX dark matter search

Akerib¹,

Alsum²,

Araújo³

et al. 2021

Phys. Rev. D

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The Large Underground Xenon (LUX) dark matter search was a 250-kg active mass dual-phase time projection chamber that operated by detecting light and ionization signals from particles incident on a xenon target. In December 2015, LUX reported a minimum 90% upper C.L. of 6 × 10 −46 cm 2 on the spin-independent WIMP-nucleon elastic scattering cross section based on a 1.4 × 10 4 kg•day exposure in its first science run. Tension between experiments and the absence of a definitive positive detection suggest it would be prudent to search for WIMPs outside the standard spinindependent/spin-dependent paradigm. Recent theoretical work has identified a complete basis of 14 independent effective field theory (EFT) operators to describe WIMP-nucleon interactions. In

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Section: The Lux Apparatus and First Dark Matter Searchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Effective field theory analysis of the first LUX dark matter search

Akerib¹,

Alsum²,

Araújo³

et al. 2021

Phys. Rev. D

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“…In addition, there exist 2g 1 and g 2 are defined with respect to the expectation values, S1 = g 1 n γ and S2 = g 2 n e , where n γ and n e are the numbers of photons and electrons that escape the interaction site after an energy deposition, respectively. several dark matter candidate models where the dominant interaction with Standard Model matter occurs via electronic recoils [10,11]. To characterize the detector response from β decays, LUX underwent multiple calibration campaigns measuring the light and charge yields from incident β particles, including those from 3 H and 14 C sources which have energy spectra extending out to 18.6 and 156 keV, respectively.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Improved Modeling of $β$ Electronic Recoils in Liquid Xenon Using LUX Calibration Data

Akerib,

Alsum,

Araújo

et al. 2019

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We report here methods and techniques for creating and improving a model that reproduces the scintillation and ionization response of a dual-phase liquid and gaseous xenon timeprojection chamber. Starting with the recent release of the Noble Element Simulation Technique (NEST v2.0), electronic recoil data from the β decays of 3 H and 14 C in the Large Underground Xenon (LUX) detector were used to tune the model, in addition to external data sets that allow for extrapolation beyond the LUX data-taking conditions. This paper also presents techniques used for modeling complicated temporal and spatial detector pathologies that can adversely affect data using a simplified model framework. The methods outlined in this report show an example of the robust applications possible with NEST v2.0, while also providing the final electronic recoil model and detector parameters that will used in the new analysis package, the LUX Legacy Analysis Monte Carlo Application (LLAMA), for accurate reproduction of the LUX data. As accurate background reproduction is crucial for the success of rare-event searches, such as dark matter direct detection experiments, the techniques outlined here can be used in other single-phase and dual-phase xenon detectors to assist with accurate ER background reproduction.

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“…Collisional shielding: collisions of incoming mirror particles with the population of accumulated mirror baryons could act as a shield, preventing the incoming mirror particles from reaching direct detection experiments. This collisional shielding effect was taken into account by the recent LUX analysis for Z 2 -symmetric mirror DM [160], based on the analysis in [144]. However, in the framework we are considering, we find that this effect is negligible for 10 −9 .…”

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confidence: 79%

“…While this paper was in preparation, LUX[160] and Xenon1T[161] published analyses based on searches for electron recoils in mirror models. The LUX analysis relied on assumptions about collisional shielding that do not apply in our case (see appendix A).…”

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Direct detection of mirror matter in Twin Higgs models

Chacko

Curtin

Geller

et al. 2021

J. High Energ. Phys.

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We explore the possibility of discovering the mirror baryons and electrons of the Mirror Twin Higgs model in direct detection experiments, in a scenario in which these particles constitute a subcomponent of the observed DM. We consider a framework in which the mirror fermions are sub-nano-charged, as a consequence of kinetic mixing between the photon and its mirror counterpart. We consider both nuclear recoil and electron recoil experiments. The event rates depend on the fraction of mirror DM that is ionized, and also on its distribution in the galaxy. Since mirror DM is dissipative, at the location of the Earth it may be in the form of a halo or may have collapsed into a disk, depending on the cooling rate. For a given mirror DM abundance we determine the expected event rates in direct detection experiments for the limiting cases of an ionized halo, an ionized disk, an atomic halo and an atomic disk. We find that by taking advantage of the complementarity of the different experiments, it may be possible to establish not just the multi-component nature of mirror dark matter, but also its distribution in the galaxy. In addition, a study of the recoil energies may be able to determine the masses and charges of the constituents of the mirror sector. By showing that the mass and charge of mirror helium are integer multiples of those of mirror hydrogen, these experiments have the potential to distinguish the mirror nature of the theory. We also carefully consider mirror plasma screening effects, showing that the capture of mirror dark matter particles in the Earth has at most a modest effect on direct detection signals.

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First direct detection constraint on mirror dark matter kinetic mixing using LUX 2013 data

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Effective field theory analysis of the first LUX dark matter search

Effective field theory analysis of the first LUX dark matter search

Improved Modeling of $β$ Electronic Recoils in Liquid Xenon Using LUX Calibration Data

Direct detection of mirror matter in Twin Higgs models

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