Dark Matter Search Results from the PICO-60 C3 F8 Bubble Chamber

PICO Collaboration

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Abstract

New results are reported from the operation of the PICO-60 dark matter detector, a bubble chamber filled with 52 kg of C3F8 located in the SNOLAB underground laboratory. As in previous PICO bubble chambers, PICO-60 C3F8 exhibits excellent electron recoil and alpha decay rejection, and the observed multiple-scattering neutron rate indicates a single-scatter neutron background of less than one event per month. A blind analysis of an efficiency-corrected 1167-kg day exposure at a 3.3-keV thermodynamic threshold reveals no single-scattering nuclear recoil candidates, consistent with the predicted background. These results set the most stringent direct-detection constraint to date on the weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP)-proton spin-dependent cross section at 3.4×10-41 cm2 for a 30-GeV c-2 WIMP, more than 1 order of magnitude improvement from previous PICO results.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number251301
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume118
Issue number25
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 23 2017

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • General Physics and Astronomy

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