First Search for Bosonic Superweakly Interacting Massive Particles with Masses up to 1 MeV/c2 with GERDA

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Beitragende

  • GERDA collaboration - (Autor:in)
  • Professur für Kernphysik
  • Technische Universität München
  • Russian Research Centre Kurchatov Institute
  • National Institute for Nuclear Physics
  • RAS - Institute for Nuclear Research
  • Universität Zürich
  • Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics
  • Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca
  • Alikhanov Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics
  • Università degli studi di Padova
  • Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
  • Max Planck Institute for Physics (Werner Heisenberg Institute)
  • University of L'Aquila
  • Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
  • European Commission Joint Research Centre Institute
  • Technische Universität Dresden

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-β decay experiment which operates high-purity germanium detectors enriched in Ge76 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/c2 to 1 MeV/c2. 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/c2 have been set. As an example, at a mass of 150 keV/c2 the most stringent direct limits on the dimensionless couplings of axionlike particles and dark photons to electrons of gae<3×10-12 and α′/α<6.5×10-24 at 90% credible interval, respectively, were obtained.

Details

OriginalspracheEnglisch
Aufsatznummer011801
FachzeitschriftPhysical review letters
Jahrgang125
Ausgabenummer1
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 3 Juli 2020
Peer-Review-StatusJa

Externe IDs

PubMed 32678643

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