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Dark matter search results from the complete exposure of the PICO-60 C3F8 bubble chamber

Journal

PHYSICAL REVIEW D
Volume 100, Issue 2, Pages -

Publisher

AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.100.022001

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Funding

  1. SNOLAB
  2. Canada Foundation for Innovation
  3. Province of Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation
  4. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
  5. Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI)
  6. National Science Foundation (NSF) [0919526, 1506337, 1242637, 1205987, 1806722]
  7. U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science, Office of High Energy Physics [DE-SC-0012161]
  8. DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) award
  9. DGAPA-UNAM (PAPIIT) [IA100118]
  10. Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia (CONACyT, Mexico) [252167, A1-S-8960]
  11. Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), Government of India, under the Centre for AstroParticle Physics II project
  12. European Regional Development FundProject Engineering applications of microworld physics [02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16_019/0000766]
  13. Spanish (Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities) Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovacion y Universidades [FPA2017-90566-REDC]
  14. Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago through NSF [1125897]
  15. Kavli Foundation
  16. Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory [DE-AC02-07CH11359]
  17. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
  18. U.S. Department of Energy [DE-AC05-76RL01830]
  19. WestGrid
  20. Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
  21. Division Of Physics [1806722, 1242637] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
  22. Division Of Physics
  23. Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1205987, 0919526] Funding Source: National Science Foundation

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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 x 10(-41) cm(2) for a 25 GeV WIMP, improving on previous PICO results for 3-5 GeV WIMPs by an order of magnitude.

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