Dark matter search results from the complete exposure of the PICO-60 bubble chamber
Abstract
Final results are reported from operation of the PICO-60 C3F8 dark matter detector, a bubble chamber filled with 52 kg of C3F8 located in the SNOLAB underground laboratory. The chamber was operated at thermodynamic thresholds as low as 1.2 keV without loss of stability. A new blind 1404-kg-day exposure at 2.45 keV threshold was acquired with approximately the same expected total background rate as the previous 1167-kg-day exposure at 3.3 keV. This increased exposure is enabled in part by a new optical tracking analysis to better identify events near detector walls, permitting a larger fiducial volume. These results set the most stringent direct-detection constraint to date on the weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP)-proton spin-dependent cross section at $$3.2×10^{-41}$$ cm2 for a 25 GeV WIMP, improving on previous PICO results for 3–5 GeV WIMPs by an order of magnitude.
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- Research Org.:
- Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States); Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States); Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
- Contributing Org.:
- PICO Collaboration
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1529344
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1546455; OSTI ID: 1600663
- Report Number(s):
- arXiv:1902.04031; FERMILAB-PUB-19-073-AE-E
Journal ID: ISSN 2470-0010; PRVDAQ; 1719421
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-07CH11359; SC-0012161; AC05-76RL01830; SC0011702
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review D
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 100; Journal Issue: 2; Journal ID: ISSN 2470-0010
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS; 46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
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Amole, C., Ardid, M., Arnquist, I. J., Asner, D. M., Baxter, D., Behnke, E., Bressler, M., Broerman, B., Cao, G., Chen, C. J., Chowdhury, U., Clark, K., Collar, J. I., Cooper, P. S., Coutu, C. B., Cowles, C., Crisler, M., Crowder, G., Cruz-Venegas, N. A., Dahl, C. E., Das, M., Fallows, S., Farine, J., Felis, I., Filgas, R., Girard, F., Giroux, G., Hall, J., Hardy, C., Harris, O., Hillier, T., Hoppe, E. W., Jackson, C. M., Jin, M., Klopfenstein, L., Kozynets, T., Krauss, C. B., Laurin, M., Lawson, I., Leblanc, A., Levine, I., Licciardi, C., Lippincott, W. H., Loer, B., Mamedov, F., Mitra, P., Moore, C., Nania, T., Neilson, R., Noble, A. J., Oedekerk, P., Ortega, A., Piro, M. -C., Plante, A., Podviyanuk, R., Priya, S., Robinson, A. E., Sahoo, S., Scallon, O., Seth, S., Sonnenschein, A., Starinski, N., Štekl, I., Sullivan, T., Tardif, F., Vázquez-Jáuregui, E., Walkowski, N., Weima, E., Wichoski, U., Wierman, K., Yan, Y., Zacek, V., and Zhang, J. Dark matter search results from the complete exposure of the PICO-60 C3F8 bubble chamber. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.100.022001.
Amole, C., Ardid, M., Arnquist, I. J., Asner, D. M., Baxter, D., Behnke, E., Bressler, M., Broerman, B., Cao, G., Chen, C. J., Chowdhury, U., Clark, K., Collar, J. I., Cooper, P. S., Coutu, C. B., Cowles, C., Crisler, M., Crowder, G., Cruz-Venegas, N. A., Dahl, C. E., Das, M., Fallows, S., Farine, J., Felis, I., Filgas, R., Girard, F., Giroux, G., Hall, J., Hardy, C., Harris, O., Hillier, T., Hoppe, E. W., Jackson, C. M., Jin, M., Klopfenstein, L., Kozynets, T., Krauss, C. B., Laurin, M., Lawson, I., Leblanc, A., Levine, I., Licciardi, C., Lippincott, W. H., Loer, B., Mamedov, F., Mitra, P., Moore, C., Nania, T., Neilson, R., Noble, A. J., Oedekerk, P., Ortega, A., Piro, M. -C., Plante, A., Podviyanuk, R., Priya, S., Robinson, A. E., Sahoo, S., Scallon, O., Seth, S., Sonnenschein, A., Starinski, N., Štekl, I., Sullivan, T., Tardif, F., Vázquez-Jáuregui, E., Walkowski, N., Weima, E., Wichoski, U., Wierman, K., Yan, Y., Zacek, V., & Zhang, J. Dark matter search results from the complete exposure of the PICO-60 C3F8 bubble chamber. United States. doi:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.100.022001
Amole, C., Ardid, M., Arnquist, I. J., Asner, D. M., Baxter, D., Behnke, E., Bressler, M., Broerman, B., Cao, G., Chen, C. J., Chowdhury, U., Clark, K., Collar, J. I., Cooper, P. S., Coutu, C. B., Cowles, C., Crisler, M., Crowder, G., Cruz-Venegas, N. A., Dahl, C. E., Das, M., Fallows, S., Farine, J., Felis, I., Filgas, R., Girard, F., Giroux, G., Hall, J., Hardy, C., Harris, O., Hillier, T., Hoppe, E. W., Jackson, C. M., Jin, M., Klopfenstein, L., Kozynets, T., Krauss, C. B., Laurin, M., Lawson, I., Leblanc, A., Levine, I., Licciardi, C., Lippincott, W. H., Loer, B., Mamedov, F., Mitra, P., Moore, C., Nania, T., Neilson, R., Noble, A. J., Oedekerk, P., Ortega, A., Piro, M. -C., Plante, A., Podviyanuk, R., Priya, S., Robinson, A. E., Sahoo, S., Scallon, O., Seth, S., Sonnenschein, A., Starinski, N., Štekl, I., Sullivan, T., Tardif, F., Vázquez-Jáuregui, E., Walkowski, N., Weima, E., Wichoski, U., Wierman, K., Yan, Y., Zacek, V., and Zhang, J. Tue .
"Dark matter search results from the complete exposure of the PICO-60 C3F8 bubble chamber". United States. doi:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.100.022001. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1529344.
@article{osti_1529344,
title = {Dark matter search results from the complete exposure of the PICO-60 C3F8 bubble chamber},
author = {Amole, C. and Ardid, M. and Arnquist, I. J. and Asner, D. M. and Baxter, D. and Behnke, E. and Bressler, M. and Broerman, B. and Cao, G. and Chen, C. J. and Chowdhury, U. and Clark, K. and Collar, J. I. and Cooper, P. S. and Coutu, C. B. and Cowles, C. and Crisler, M. and Crowder, G. and Cruz-Venegas, N. A. and Dahl, C. E. and Das, M. and Fallows, S. and Farine, J. and Felis, I. and Filgas, R. and Girard, F. and Giroux, G. and Hall, J. and Hardy, C. and Harris, O. and Hillier, T. and Hoppe, E. W. and Jackson, C. M. and Jin, M. and Klopfenstein, L. and Kozynets, T. and Krauss, C. B. and Laurin, M. and Lawson, I. and Leblanc, A. and Levine, I. and Licciardi, C. and Lippincott, W. H. and Loer, B. and Mamedov, F. and Mitra, P. and Moore, C. and Nania, T. and Neilson, R. and Noble, A. J. and Oedekerk, P. and Ortega, A. and Piro, M. -C. and Plante, A. and Podviyanuk, R. and Priya, S. and Robinson, A. E. and Sahoo, S. and Scallon, O. and Seth, S. and Sonnenschein, A. and Starinski, N. and Štekl, I. and Sullivan, T. and Tardif, F. and Vázquez-Jáuregui, E. and Walkowski, N. and Weima, E. and Wichoski, U. and Wierman, K. and Yan, Y. and Zacek, V. and Zhang, J.},
abstractNote = {Final results are reported from operation of the PICO-60 C3F8 dark matter detector, a bubble chamber filled with 52 kg of C3F8 located in the SNOLAB underground laboratory. The chamber was operated at thermodynamic thresholds as low as 1.2 keV without loss of stability. A new blind 1404-kg-day exposure at 2.45 keV threshold was acquired with approximately the same expected total background rate as the previous 1167-kg-day exposure at 3.3 keV. This increased exposure is enabled in part by a new optical tracking analysis to better identify events near detector walls, permitting a larger fiducial volume. These results set the most stringent direct-detection constraint to date on the weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP)-proton spin-dependent cross section at $3.2×10^{-41}$ cm2 for a 25 GeV WIMP, improving on previous PICO results for 3–5 GeV WIMPs by an order of magnitude.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevD.100.022001},
journal = {Physical Review D},
number = 2,
volume = 100,
place = {United States},
year = {2019},
month = {7}
}
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