%0 Journal Article
%T Exclusion of leptophilic dark matter models using XENON100 electronic recoil data
%A XENON Collaboration (Aprile, E. et al
%A Orrigo, S. E. A.
%J Science
%D 2015
%V 349
%N 6250
%I Amer Assoc Advancement Science
%@ 0036-8075
%G English
%F XENONCollaborationAprile+Orrigo2015
%O WOS:000359832700045
%O exported from refbase (https://references.ific.uv.es/refbase/show.php?record=2490), last updated on Tue, 05 Jan 2016 12:31:55 +0000
%X Laboratory experiments searching for galactic dark matter particles scattering off nuclei have so far not been able to establish a discovery. We use data from the XENON100 experiment to search for dark matter interacting with electrons. With no evidence for a signal above the low background of our experiment, we exclude a variety of representative dark matter models that would induce electronic recoils. For axial-vector couplings to electrons, we exclude cross sections above 6 x 10(-35) cm(2) for particle masses of m(chi) = 2 GeV/c(2). Independent of the dark matter halo, we exclude leptophilic models as an explanation for the long-standing DAMA/LIBRA signal, such as couplings to electrons through axial-vector interactions at a 4.4 sigma confidence level, mirror dark matter at 3.6 sigma, and luminous dark matter at 4.6 sigma.
%R 10.1126/science.aab2069
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1507.07747
%U https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aab2069
%P 851-854