Search for Light Fermionic Dark Matter Absorption on Electrons in PandaX-4T

作     者：Dan Zhang Abdusalam Abdukerim Zihao Bo Wei Chen Xun Chen Yunhua Chen Chen Cheng Zhaokan Cheng Xiangyi Cui Yingjie Fan Deqing Fang Changbo Fu Mengting Fu Lisheng Geng Karl Giboni Linhui Gu Xuyuan Guo Ke Han Changda He Jinrong He Di Huang Yanlin Huang Zhou Huang Ruquan Hou Xiangdong Ji Yonglin Ju Chenxiang Li Jiafu Li Mingchuan Li Shu Li Shuaijie Li Qing Lin Jianglai Liu Xiaoying Lu Lingyin Luo Yunyang Luo Wenbo Ma Yugang Ma Yajun Mao Nasir Shaheed Yue Meng Xuyang Ning Ningchun Qi Zhicheng Qian Xiangxiang Ren Changsong Shang Xiaofeng Shang Guofang Shen Lin Si Wenliang Sun Andi Tan Yi Tao Anqing Wang Meng Wang Qiuhong Wang Shaobo Wang Siguang Wang Wei Wang Xiuli Wang Zhou Wang Yuehuan Wei Mengmeng Wu Weihao Wu Jingkai Xia Mengjiao Xiao Xiang Xiao Pengwei Xie Binbin Yan Xiyu Yan Jijun Yang Yong Yang Chunxu Yu Jumin Yuan Ying Yuan Xinning Zeng Minzhen Zhang Peng Zhang Shibo Zhang Shu Zhang Tao Zhang Yuanyuan Zhang Li Zhao Qibin Zheng Jifang Zhou Ning Zhou Xiaopeng Zhou Yong Zhou Yubo Zhou Shao-Feng Ge Xiao-Gang He Xiao-Dong Ma Jie Sheng 

作者机构：Department of Physics University of Maryland College Park Maryland 20742 USA School of Physics and Astronomy Shanghai Jiao Tong University Key Laboratory for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (MoE) Shanghai Key Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology Shanghai 200240 China Shanghai Jiao Tong University Sichuan Research Institute Chengdu 610213 China Yalong River Hydropower Development Company Ltd. 288 Shuanglin Road Chengdu 610051 China School of Physics Sun Yat-Sen University Guangzhou 510275 China Sino-French Institute of Nuclear Engineering and Technology Sun Yat-Sen University Zhuhai 519082 China Tsung-Dao Lee Institute Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai 200240 China School of Physics Nankai University Tianjin 300071 China Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Ion-beam Application (MOE) Institute of Modern Physics Fudan University Shanghai 200433 China School of Physics Peking University Beijing 100871 China School of Physics Beihang University Beijing 102206 China International Research Center for Nuclei and Particles in the Cosmos and Beijing Key Laboratory of Advanced Nuclear Materials and Physics Beihang University Beijing 100191 China School of Physics and Microelectronics Zhengzhou University Zhengzhou Henan 450001 China School of Medical Instrument and Food Engineering University of Shanghai for Science and Technology Shanghai 200093 China School of Mechanical Engineering Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai 200240 China State Key Laboratory of Particle Detection and Electronics University of Science and Technology of China Hefei 230026 China Department of Modern Physics University of Science and Technology of China Hefei 230026 China Research Center for Particle Science and Technology Institute of Frontier and Interdisciplinary Scienc Shandong University Qingdao 266237 Shandong China Key Laboratory of Particle Physics and Particle Irradiation of Ministry of Education Shandong University Qingdao 266237 Shandong China SJTU Paris Elite Institute of Technology Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai 200240 China Department of Physics National Taiwan University Taipei 10617 

出 版 物：《Physical Review Letters》 (Phys Rev Lett)

年 卷 期：2022年第129卷第16期

页      面：161804-161804页

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学科分类：07[理学] 0702[理学-物理学] 

基　　金：Office of Science and Technology, Shanghai Municipal Government, (18JC1410200) National Natural Science Foundation of China, NSFC, (11775141, 11905128, 11925502, 12005131, 12090061, 12090064) National Natural Science Foundation of China, NSFC Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China, MOST, (2016YFA0400301) Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China, MOST China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, (2021M702148) China Postdoctoral Science Foundation Shanghai Jiao Tong University, SJTU 

主　　题：Effective field theory Fermions Particle dark matter Dark matter detectors Multi-purpose particle detectors 

摘      要：We report a search on sub-MeV fermionic dark matter absorbed by electrons with an outgoing active neutrino using the 0.63 tonne year exposure collected by the PandaX-4T liquid xenon experiment. No significant signals are observed over the expected background. The data are interpreted into limits to the effective couplings between such dark matter and the electron. For axial-vector or vector interactions, our sensitivity is competitive in comparison to existing astrophysical bounds on the decay of such a dark matter candidate into photon final states. In particular, we present the first direct detection limits for a vector (axial-vector) interaction which are the strongest in the mass range from 35 to 55 (25 to 45) keV/c2 in comparison to other astrophysical and cosmological constraints.