TY  - JOUR
AU  - XENON Collaboration (Aprile, E. et al
AU  - Orrigo, S. E. A.
PY  - 2015
DA  - 2015//
TI  - Exclusion of leptophilic dark matter models using XENON100 electronic recoil data
T2  - Science
JO  - Science
SP  - 851
EP  - 854
VL  - 349
IS  - 6250
PB  - Amer Assoc Advancement Science
AB  - 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.
SN  - 0036-8075
UR  - http://arxiv.org/abs/1507.07747
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aab2069
DO  - 10.1126/science.aab2069
LA  - English
N1  - WOS:000359832700045
ID  - XENONCollaborationAprile+Orrigo2015
ER  -