Exploring the dark matter inelastic frontier with 79.6 days of PandaX-II data
/ Authors
Pao Yuan. Chen, A. Abdukerim, Wei Chen, Yunhua Chen, X. Cui, D. Fang, C. Fu, K. Giboni, F. Giuliani, Xuyuan Guo
and 37 more authors
Zhifan Guo, K. Han, Shengming He, X. Huang, X. Ji, Y. Ju, Shaoli Li, Heng Lin, Huaxuan Liu, Jianglai Liu, Yugang Ma, Y. Mao, J. Ning, X. Ren, Fangxia Shi, A. Tan, Cheng Wang, Hong-Wei Wang, Meng Wang, Qiuhong Wang, Siguang Wang, Xiuli Wang, Xuming Wang, Qingyu Wu, Shiyong Wu, M. Xiao, P. Xie, B. Yan, Yong Yang, J. Yue, Dan Zhang, Hongguang Zhang, Tao Zhang, Li Zhao, Jifang Zhou, N. Zhou, Xiaopeng Zhou
/ Abstract
We report here the results of searching for inelastic scattering of dark matter (initial and final state dark matter particles differ by a small mass splitting) with nucleon with the first 79.6-day of PandaX-II data (Run 9). We set the upper limits for the spin independent WIMP-nucleon scattering cross section up to a mass splitting of 300 keV/c$^2$ at two benchmark dark matter masses of 1 and 10 TeV/c$^2$.
Journal: Physical Review D