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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 129, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.021801
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- U.S. Department of Energy
- U.S. National Science Foundation
- Los Alamos National Laboratory LDRD program
- Programa de Apoyo a Proyectos de Investigacion e Innovacion Tecnologica and Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (PAPIIT-UNAM) [IT100420, NSF-1801996, DOE-HEP DESC0009824]
- LANSCE Lujan Center
- LANL's Accelerator Operations and Technology division
- U.S. Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration [89233218CNA000001]
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We present the first results of a search for leptophobic dark matter from the Coherent-CAPTAIN-Mills liquid argon detector. Despite technical limitations and nonoptimized conditions, the first engineering run of CCM has achieved some success in exploring the unexplored parameter space of light dark matter models.
We report the first results of a search for leptophobic dark matter (DM) from the Coherent-CAPTAIN-Mills (CCM) liquid argon (LAr) detector. An engineering run with 120 photomultiplicr tubes (PMTs) and 17.9 x 10(20) protons on target (POT) was performed in fall 2019 to study the characteristics of the CCM detector. The operation of this 10-ton detector was strictly light based with a threshold of 50 keV and used coherent elastic scattering off argon nuclei to detect DM. Despite only 1.5 months of accumulated luminosity, contaminated LAr, and nonoptimized shielding, CCM's first engineering run has already achieved sensitivity to previously unexplored parameter space of light dark matter models with a baryonic vector portal. With an expected background of 115 005 events, we observe 115 005 + 16.5 events which is compatible with background expectations. For a benchmark mediator-to-DM mass ratio of m(VB)/m(chi) = 2.1, DM masses within the range 9 MeV <= m(chi) <= 50 MeV are excluded at 90% C. L. in the leptophobic model after applying the Feldman-Cousins test statistic. CCM's upgraded run with 200 PMTs, filtered LAr, improved shielding, and 10 times more POT will be able to exclude the remaining thermal relic density parameter space of this model, as well as probe new parameter space of other leptophobic DM models.
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