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PHYSICS LETTERS B
卷 747, 期 -, 页码 331-338出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2015.06.018
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- Walter Burke Institute at Caltech
- DOE [DE-SC0011632]
- NSERC, Canada
- Government of Canada through NSERC
- Province of Ontario through MEDT
- New Frontiers program of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
Dark matter detectors built primarily to probe elastic scattering of WIMPs on nuclei are also precise probes of light, weakly coupled, particles that may be absorbed by the detector material. In this paper, we derive constraints on the minimal model of dark matter comprised of long-lived vector states V (dark photons) in the 0.01-100 keV mass range. The absence of an ionization signal in direct detection experiments such as XENON10 and XENON100 places a very strong constraint on the dark photon mixing angle, down to O(10(-15)), assuming that dark photons comprise the dominant fraction of dark matter. This sensitivity to dark photon dark matter exceeds the indirect bounds derived from stellar energy loss considerations over a significant fraction of the available mass range. We also revisit indirect constraints from V -> 3 gamma decay and show that limits from modifications to the cosmological ionization history are comparable to the updated limits from the diffuse gamma-ray flux. (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.
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