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PHYSICAL REVIEW D
Volume 93, Issue 8, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.93.081101
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- U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) [PHY-0919363, PHY-1004072, PHY-1004054, PHY-1242585, PHY-1314483, PHY-1314507, PHY-1211308, PHY-1455351]
- Italian Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
- U.S. Department of Energy [DE-FG02-91ER40671, DE-AC02-07CH11359]
- Polish NCN [UMO-2012/05/E/ST2/02333]
- UnivEarthS Labex program of Sorbonne Paris Cite [ANR-10-LABX-0023, ANR-11-IDEX-0005-02]
- Sao Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP)
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1455351] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Physics [1242585, 1314501, 1103987, 1125897] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Physics [1455351] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Liquid argon is a bright scintillator with potent particle identification properties, making it an attractive target for direct-detection dark matter searches. The DarkSide-50 dark matter search here reports the first WIMP search results obtained using a target of low-radioactivity argon. DarkSide-50 is a dark matter detector, using a two-phase liquid argon time projection chamber, located at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso. The underground argon is shown to contain Ar-39 at a level reduced by a factor (1.4 +/- 0.2) x 10(3) relative to atmospheric argon. We report a background-free null result from (2616 +/- 43) kg d of data, accumulated over 70.9 live days. When combined with our previous search using an atmospheric argon, the 90% C.L. upper limit on the WIMP-nucleon spin-independent cross section, based on zero events found in the WIMP search regions, is 2.0 x 10(-4)4 cm(2) (8.6 x 10(-44) cm(2), 8.0 x 10(-43) cm(2)) for a WIMP mass of 100 GeV/c(2) (1 TeV/c(2), 10 TeV/c(2)).
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