Constraints on Spin-Independent Nucleus Scattering with sub-GeV Weakly Interacting Massive Particle Dark Matter from the CDEX-1B Experiment at the China Jinping Underground LaboratoryZiyi Liu, Qian Yue, L. T. Yang et al.|Physical Review Letters|2019 We report results on the searches of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) with sub-GeV masses (${m}_{\ensuremath{\chi}}$) via WIMP-nucleus spin-independent scattering with Migdal effect incorporated. Analysis on time-integrated (TI) and annual modulation (AM) effects on CDEX-1B data are performed, with 737.1 kg day exposure and 160 eVee threshold for TI analysis, and 1107.5 kg day exposure and 250 eVee threshold for AM analysis. The sensitive windows in ${m}_{\ensuremath{\chi}}$ are expanded by an order of magnitude to lower DM masses with Migdal effect incorporated. New limits on ${\ensuremath{\sigma}}_{\ensuremath{\chi}N}^{\mathrm{SI}}$ at 90% confidence level are derived as $2\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}{10}^{\ensuremath{-}32}\ensuremath{\sim}7\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}{10}^{\ensuremath{-}35}\text{ }\text{ }{\mathrm{cm}}^{2}$ for TI analysis at ${m}_{\ensuremath{\chi}}\ensuremath{\sim}50--180\text{ }\text{ }\mathrm{MeV}/{c}^{2}$, and $3\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}{10}^{\ensuremath{-}32}\ensuremath{\sim}9\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}{10}^{\ensuremath{-}38}\text{ }\text{ }{\mathrm{cm}}^{2}$ for AM analysis at ${m}_{\ensuremath{\chi}}\ensuremath{\sim}75\text{ }\text{ }\mathrm{MeV}/{c}^{2}--3.0\text{ }\text{ }\mathrm{GeV}/{c}^{2}$.
Limits on Light Weakly Interacting Massive Particles from the First <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mml:mrow><mml:mn>102.8</mml:mn><mml:mtext> </mml:mtext><mml:mtext>kg</mml:mtext><mml:mo>×</mml:mo><mml:mtext>day</mml:mtext></mml:mrow></mml:math> Data of the CDEX-10 ExperimentHao Jiang, Liwei Jia, Q. Yue et al.|Physical Review Letters|2018 We report the first results of a light weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) search from the CDEX-10 experiment with a 10 kg germanium detector array immersed in liquid nitrogen at the China Jinping Underground Laboratory with a physics data size of 102.8 kg day. At an analysis threshold of 160 eVee, improved limits of $8\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}{10}^{\ensuremath{-}42}$ and $3\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}{10}^{\ensuremath{-}36}\text{ }\text{ }{\mathrm{cm}}^{2}$ at a 90% confidence level on spin-independent and spin-dependent WIMP-nucleon cross sections, respectively, at a WIMP mass (${m}_{\ensuremath{\chi}}$) of $5\text{ }\text{ }\mathrm{GeV}/{c}^{2}$ are achieved. The lower reach of ${m}_{\ensuremath{\chi}}$ is extended to $2\text{ }\text{ }\mathrm{GeV}/{c}^{2}$.
Limits on light weakly interacting massive particles from the CDEX-1 experiment with a<mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mml:mi>p</mml:mi></mml:math>-type point-contact germanium detector at the China Jinping Underground LaboratoryQ. Yue, Wen Zhao, K. Kang et al.|Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D, Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology|2014 We report results of a search for light dark matter weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) with CDEX-1 experiment at the China Jinping Underground Laboratory, based on 53.9 kg-days of data from a $p$-type point-contact germanium detector enclosed by a NaI(Tl) crystal scintillator as anti-Compton detector. The event rate and spectrum above the analysis threshold of 475 eVee are consistent with the understood background model. Part of the allowed regions for WIMP-nucleus coherent elastic scattering at WIMP mass of 6--20 GeV are probed and excluded. Independent of interaction channels, this result contradicts the interpretation that the anomalous excesses of the CoGeNT experiment are induced by dark matter, since identical detector techniques are used in both experiments.
Characterization and performance of germanium detectors with sub-keV sensitivities for neutrino and dark matter experimentsA. K. Soma, M. K. Singh, L. Singh et al.|Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment|2016 First results on low-mass WIMPs from the CDEX-1 experiment at the China Jinping underground laboratoryWen Zhao, Q. Yue, K. Kang et al.|Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D, Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology|2013 The China Dark Matter Experiment Collaboration reports the first experimental limit on weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) dark matter from 14.6 kg-days of data taken with a 994 g p-type point-contact germanium detector at the China Jinping underground laboratory where the rock overburden is more than 2400 m. The energy threshold achieved was 400 eVee. According to the 14.6 kg-day live data, we placed the limit of ${\ensuremath{\sigma}}_{\ensuremath{\chi}N}=1.75\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}{10}^{\ensuremath{-}40}\text{ }\text{ }{\mathrm{cm}}^{2}$ at a 90% confidence level on the spin-independent cross section at a WIMP mass of 7 GeV before differentiating bulk signals from the surface backgrounds.