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Arnquist I, Avalos N, Baxter D, Bertou X, Castelló-Mor N, Chavarria AE, Cuevas-Zepeda J, Dastgheibi-Fard A, De Dominicis C, Deligny O, Duarte-Campderros J, Estrada E, Gadola N, Gaïor R, Hossbach T, Iddir L, Kavanagh BJ, Kilminster B, Lantero-Barreda A, Lawson I, Lee S, Letessier-Selvon A, Loaiza P, Lopez-Virto A, McGuire KJ, Mitra P, Munagavalasa S, Norcini D, Paul S, Piers A, Privitera P, Robmann P, Scorza S, Settimo M, Smida R, Traina M, Vilar R, Warot G, Yajur R, Zopounidis JP. Search for Daily Modulation of MeV Dark Matter Signals with DAMIC-M. Phys Rev Lett 2024; 132:101006. [PMID: 38518351 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.132.101006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2023] [Revised: 11/07/2023] [Accepted: 02/07/2024] [Indexed: 03/24/2024]
Abstract
Dark matter (DM) particles with sufficiently large cross sections may scatter as they travel through Earth's bulk. The corresponding changes in the DM flux give rise to a characteristic daily modulation signal in detectors sensitive to DM-electron interactions. Here, we report results obtained from the first underground operation of the DAMIC-M prototype detector searching for such a signal from DM with MeV-scale mass. A model-independent analysis finds no modulation in the rate of 1 e^{-} events with sidereal period, where a DM signal would appear. We then use these data to place exclusion limits on DM in the mass range [0.53,2.7] MeV/c^{2} interacting with electrons via a dark photon mediator. Taking advantage of the time-dependent signal we improve by ∼2 orders of magnitude on our previous limit obtained from the total rate of 1 e^{-} events, using the same dataset. This daily modulation search represents the current strongest limit on DM-electron scattering via ultralight mediators for DM masses around 1 MeV/c^{2}.
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Affiliation(s)
- I Arnquist
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, Washington, USA
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- Centro Atómico Bariloche and Instituto Balseiro, Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica (CNEA), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Universidad Nacional de Cuyo (UNCUYO), San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina
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- Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics and The Enrico Fermi Institute, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Centro Atómico Bariloche and Instituto Balseiro, Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica (CNEA), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Universidad Nacional de Cuyo (UNCUYO), San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina
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- Instituto de Física de Cantabria (IFCA), CSIC-Universidad de Cantabria, Santander, Spain
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- Center for Experimental Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics and The Enrico Fermi Institute, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Laboratoire de physique nucléaire et des hautes énergies (LPNHE), Sorbonne Université, Université Paris Cité, CNRS/IN2P3, Paris, France
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- CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France
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- Instituto de Física de Cantabria (IFCA), CSIC-Universidad de Cantabria, Santander, Spain
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- Centro Atómico Bariloche and Instituto Balseiro, Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica (CNEA), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Universidad Nacional de Cuyo (UNCUYO), San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina
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- Universität Zürich Physik Institut, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Laboratoire de physique nucléaire et des hautes énergies (LPNHE), Sorbonne Université, Université Paris Cité, CNRS/IN2P3, Paris, France
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, Washington, USA
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- Laboratoire de physique nucléaire et des hautes énergies (LPNHE), Sorbonne Université, Université Paris Cité, CNRS/IN2P3, Paris, France
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- Instituto de Física de Cantabria (IFCA), CSIC-Universidad de Cantabria, Santander, Spain
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- Universität Zürich Physik Institut, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Instituto de Física de Cantabria (IFCA), CSIC-Universidad de Cantabria, Santander, Spain
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- Universität Zürich Physik Institut, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Laboratoire de physique nucléaire et des hautes énergies (LPNHE), Sorbonne Université, Université Paris Cité, CNRS/IN2P3, Paris, France
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- CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France
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- Instituto de Física de Cantabria (IFCA), CSIC-Universidad de Cantabria, Santander, Spain
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- Center for Experimental Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Center for Experimental Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics and The Enrico Fermi Institute, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics and The Enrico Fermi Institute, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics and The Enrico Fermi Institute, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Center for Experimental Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics and The Enrico Fermi Institute, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Laboratoire de physique nucléaire et des hautes énergies (LPNHE), Sorbonne Université, Université Paris Cité, CNRS/IN2P3, Paris, France
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- Universität Zürich Physik Institut, Zürich, Switzerland
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- LPSC LSM, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Grenoble-Alpes, Grenoble, France
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- SUBATECH, Nantes Université, IMT Atlantique, CNRS/IN2P3, Nantes, France
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- Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics and The Enrico Fermi Institute, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Center for Experimental Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
- Laboratoire de physique nucléaire et des hautes énergies (LPNHE), Sorbonne Université, Université Paris Cité, CNRS/IN2P3, Paris, France
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- Instituto de Física de Cantabria (IFCA), CSIC-Universidad de Cantabria, Santander, Spain
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- LPSC LSM, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Grenoble-Alpes, Grenoble, France
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- Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics and The Enrico Fermi Institute, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Laboratoire de physique nucléaire et des hautes énergies (LPNHE), Sorbonne Université, Université Paris Cité, CNRS/IN2P3, Paris, France
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Arnquist I, Avalos N, Baxter D, Bertou X, Castelló-Mor N, Chavarria AE, Cuevas-Zepeda J, Gutiérrez JC, Duarte-Campderros J, Dastgheibi-Fard A, Deligny O, De Dominicis C, Estrada E, Gadola N, Gaïor R, Hossbach T, Iddir L, Khalil L, Kilminster B, Lantero-Barreda A, Lawson I, Lee S, Letessier-Selvon A, Loaiza P, Lopez-Virto A, Matalon A, Munagavalasa S, McGuire KJ, Mitra P, Norcini D, Papadopoulos G, Paul S, Piers A, Privitera P, Ramanathan K, Robmann P, Settimo M, Smida R, Thomas R, Traina M, Vila I, Vilar R, Warot G, Yajur R, Zopounidis JP. First Constraints from DAMIC-M on Sub-GeV Dark-Matter Particles Interacting with Electrons. Phys Rev Lett 2023; 130:171003. [PMID: 37172255 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.130.171003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2023] [Accepted: 03/21/2023] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
Abstract
We report constraints on sub-GeV dark matter particles interacting with electrons from the first underground operation of DAMIC-M detectors. The search is performed with an integrated exposure of 85.23 g days, and exploits the subelectron charge resolution and low level of dark current of DAMIC-M charge-coupled devices (CCDs). Dark-matter-induced ionization signals above the detector dark current are searched for in CCD pixels with charge up to 7e^{-}. With this dataset we place limits on dark matter particles of mass between 0.53 and 1000 MeV/c^{2}, excluding unexplored regions of parameter space in the mass ranges [1.6,1000] MeV/c^{2} and [1.5,15.1] MeV/c^{2} for ultralight and heavy mediator interactions, respectively.
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- I Arnquist
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, Washington, USA
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- Centro Atómico Bariloche and Instituto Balseiro, Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica (CNEA), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Universidad Nacional de Cuyo (UNCUYO), San Carlos de Bariloche 8400, Argentina
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- Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics and The Enrico Fermi Institute, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
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- Centro Atómico Bariloche and Instituto Balseiro, Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica (CNEA), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Universidad Nacional de Cuyo (UNCUYO), San Carlos de Bariloche 8400, Argentina
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- Instituto de Física de Cantabria (IFCA), CSIC-Universidad de Cantabria, Santander 39005, Spain
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- Center for Experimental Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
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- Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics and The Enrico Fermi Institute, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
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- Instituto de Física de Cantabria (IFCA), CSIC-Universidad de Cantabria, Santander 39005, Spain
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- LPSC LSM, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Grenoble-Alpes, Grenoble 38026, France
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- CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay 91405, France
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- Laboratoire de physique nucléaire et des hautes énergies (LPNHE), Sorbonne Université, Université Paris Cité, CNRS/IN2P3, Paris 75005, France
- SUBATECH, Nantes Université, IMT Atlantique, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes 44300, France
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- Centro Atómico Bariloche and Instituto Balseiro, Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica (CNEA), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Universidad Nacional de Cuyo (UNCUYO), San Carlos de Bariloche 8400, Argentina
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- Universität Zürich Physik Institut, Zürich 8057, Switzerland
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- Laboratoire de physique nucléaire et des hautes énergies (LPNHE), Sorbonne Université, Université Paris Cité, CNRS/IN2P3, Paris 75005, France
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, Washington, USA
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- Laboratoire de physique nucléaire et des hautes énergies (LPNHE), Sorbonne Université, Université Paris Cité, CNRS/IN2P3, Paris 75005, France
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- Laboratoire de physique nucléaire et des hautes énergies (LPNHE), Sorbonne Université, Université Paris Cité, CNRS/IN2P3, Paris 75005, France
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- Universität Zürich Physik Institut, Zürich 8057, Switzerland
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- Instituto de Física de Cantabria (IFCA), CSIC-Universidad de Cantabria, Santander 39005, Spain
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- SNOLAB, Lively, Ontario P341N2, Canada
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- Universität Zürich Physik Institut, Zürich 8057, Switzerland
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- Laboratoire de physique nucléaire et des hautes énergies (LPNHE), Sorbonne Université, Université Paris Cité, CNRS/IN2P3, Paris 75005, France
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- CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay 91405, France
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- Instituto de Física de Cantabria (IFCA), CSIC-Universidad de Cantabria, Santander 39005, Spain
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- Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics and The Enrico Fermi Institute, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
- Laboratoire de physique nucléaire et des hautes énergies (LPNHE), Sorbonne Université, Université Paris Cité, CNRS/IN2P3, Paris 75005, France
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- Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics and The Enrico Fermi Institute, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
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- Center for Experimental Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
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- Center for Experimental Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
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- Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics and The Enrico Fermi Institute, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
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- Laboratoire de physique nucléaire et des hautes énergies (LPNHE), Sorbonne Université, Université Paris Cité, CNRS/IN2P3, Paris 75005, France
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- Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics and The Enrico Fermi Institute, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
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- Center for Experimental Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
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- Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics and The Enrico Fermi Institute, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
- Laboratoire de physique nucléaire et des hautes énergies (LPNHE), Sorbonne Université, Université Paris Cité, CNRS/IN2P3, Paris 75005, France
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- Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics and The Enrico Fermi Institute, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
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- Universität Zürich Physik Institut, Zürich 8057, Switzerland
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- SUBATECH, Nantes Université, IMT Atlantique, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes 44300, France
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- Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics and The Enrico Fermi Institute, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
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- Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics and The Enrico Fermi Institute, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
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- Center for Experimental Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
- Laboratoire de physique nucléaire et des hautes énergies (LPNHE), Sorbonne Université, Université Paris Cité, CNRS/IN2P3, Paris 75005, France
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- Instituto de Física de Cantabria (IFCA), CSIC-Universidad de Cantabria, Santander 39005, Spain
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- Instituto de Física de Cantabria (IFCA), CSIC-Universidad de Cantabria, Santander 39005, Spain
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- LPSC LSM, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Grenoble-Alpes, Grenoble 38026, France
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- Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics and The Enrico Fermi Institute, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
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- Laboratoire de physique nucléaire et des hautes énergies (LPNHE), Sorbonne Université, Université Paris Cité, CNRS/IN2P3, Paris 75005, France
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Aguilar-Arevalo A, Amidei D, Baxter D, Cancelo G, Vergara BAC, Chavarria AE, D'Olivo JC, Estrada J, Favela-Perez F, Gaïor R, Guardincerri Y, Hoppe EW, Hossbach TW, Kilminster B, Lawson I, Lee SJ, Letessier-Selvon A, Matalon A, Mitra P, Overman CT, Piers A, Privitera P, Ramanathan K, Da Rocha J, Sarkis Y, Settimo M, Smida R, Thomas R, Tiffenberg J, Traina M, Vilar R, Virto AL. Results on Low-Mass Weakly Interacting Massive Particles from an 11 kg d Target Exposure of DAMIC at SNOLAB. Phys Rev Lett 2020; 125:241803. [PMID: 33412014 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.125.241803] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2020] [Accepted: 11/04/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
Abstract
We present constraints on the existence of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) from an 11 kg d target exposure of the DAMIC experiment at the SNOLAB underground laboratory. The observed energy spectrum and spatial distribution of ionization events with electron-equivalent energies >200 eV_{ee} in the DAMIC CCDs are consistent with backgrounds from natural radioactivity. An excess of ionization events is observed above the analysis threshold of 50 eV_{ee}. While the origin of this low-energy excess requires further investigation, our data exclude spin-independent WIMP-nucleon scattering cross sections σ_{χ-n} as low as 3×10^{-41} cm^{2} for WIMPs with masses m_{χ} from 7 to 10 GeV c^{-2}. These results are the strongest constraints from a silicon target on the existence of WIMPs with m_{χ}<9 GeV c^{-2} and are directly relevant to any dark matter interpretation of the excess of nuclear-recoil events observed by the CDMS silicon experiment in 2013.
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- Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1040, USA
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- Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics and The Enrico Fermi Institute, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- Center for Experimental Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
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- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, 04510, Mexico
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, 04510, Mexico
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- Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et des Hautes Énergies (LPNHE), Sorbonne Université, Université de Paris, CNRS-IN2P3, 75005 Paris, France
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, Washington 99354, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, Washington 99354, USA
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- Universität Zürich Physik Institut, Zurich 8057, Switzerland
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- SNOLAB, Lively, Ontario P3Y 1N2, Canada
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- Universität Zürich Physik Institut, Zurich 8057, Switzerland
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- Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et des Hautes Énergies (LPNHE), Sorbonne Université, Université de Paris, CNRS-IN2P3, 75005 Paris, France
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- Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics and The Enrico Fermi Institute, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
- Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et des Hautes Énergies (LPNHE), Sorbonne Université, Université de Paris, CNRS-IN2P3, 75005 Paris, France
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- Center for Experimental Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, Washington 99354, USA
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- Center for Experimental Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
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- Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics and The Enrico Fermi Institute, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
- Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et des Hautes Énergies (LPNHE), Sorbonne Université, Université de Paris, CNRS-IN2P3, 75005 Paris, France
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- Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics and The Enrico Fermi Institute, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
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- Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et des Hautes Énergies (LPNHE), Sorbonne Université, Université de Paris, CNRS-IN2P3, 75005 Paris, France
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- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, 04510, Mexico
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- SUBATECH, CNRS-IN2P3, IMT Atlantique, Université de Nantes, Nantes 44300, France
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- Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics and The Enrico Fermi Institute, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
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- Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics and The Enrico Fermi Institute, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et des Hautes Énergies (LPNHE), Sorbonne Université, Université de Paris, CNRS-IN2P3, 75005 Paris, France
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- Instituto de Física de Cantabria (IFCA), CSIC-Universidad de Cantabria, Santander 39005, Spain
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- Instituto de Física de Cantabria (IFCA), CSIC-Universidad de Cantabria, Santander 39005, Spain
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Aguilar-Arevalo A, Amidei D, Baxter D, Cancelo G, Cervantes Vergara BA, Chavarria AE, Darragh-Ford E, de Mello Neto JRT, D'Olivo JC, Estrada J, Gaïor R, Guardincerri Y, Hossbach TW, Kilminster B, Lawson I, Lee SJ, Letessier-Selvon A, Matalon A, Mello VBB, Mitra P, Molina J, Paul S, Piers A, Privitera P, Ramanathan K, Da Rocha J, Sarkis Y, Settimo M, Smida R, Thomas R, Tiffenberg J, Torres Machado D, Vilar R, Virto AL. Constraints on Light Dark Matter Particles Interacting with Electrons from DAMIC at SNOLAB. Phys Rev Lett 2019; 123:181802. [PMID: 31763884 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.123.181802] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2019] [Revised: 10/03/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
Abstract
We report direct-detection constraints on light dark matter particles interacting with electrons. The results are based on a method that exploits the extremely low levels of leakage current of the DAMIC detector at SNOLAB of 2-6×10^{-22} A cm^{-2}. We evaluate the charge distribution of pixels that collect <10e^{-} for contributions beyond the leakage current that may be attributed to dark matter interactions. Constraints are placed on so-far unexplored parameter space for dark matter masses between 0.6 and 100 MeV c^{-2}. We also present new constraints on hidden-photon dark matter with masses in the range 1.2-30 eV c^{-2}.
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- Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1040, USA
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- Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics and The Enrico Fermi Institute, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- Center for Experimental Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
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- Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics and The Enrico Fermi Institute, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
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- Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Instituto de Física, Rio de Janeiro 21.941-611, Brazil
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- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City 04510, Mexico
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et des Hautes Énergies (LPNHE), Sorbonne Université, Université de Paris, CNRS-IN2P3 75005, Paris France
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, Washington 99354, USA
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- Universität Zürich Physik Institut, Zurich 8057, Switzerland
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- SNOLAB, Lively, Ontario P3Y 1N2, Canada
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- Universität Zürich Physik Institut, Zurich 8057, Switzerland
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- Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et des Hautes Énergies (LPNHE), Sorbonne Université, Université de Paris, CNRS-IN2P3 75005, Paris France
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- Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics and The Enrico Fermi Institute, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
- Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et des Hautes Énergies (LPNHE), Sorbonne Université, Université de Paris, CNRS-IN2P3 75005, Paris France
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- Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Instituto de Física, Rio de Janeiro 21.941-611, Brazil
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- Center for Experimental Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
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- Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Nacional de Asunción, Asuncion 2169, Paraguay
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- Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics and The Enrico Fermi Institute, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
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- Center for Experimental Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
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- Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics and The Enrico Fermi Institute, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
- Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et des Hautes Énergies (LPNHE), Sorbonne Université, Université de Paris, CNRS-IN2P3 75005, Paris France
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- Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics and The Enrico Fermi Institute, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
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- Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et des Hautes Énergies (LPNHE), Sorbonne Université, Université de Paris, CNRS-IN2P3 75005, Paris France
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- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City 04510, Mexico
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- SUBATECH, CNRS-IN2P3, IMT Atlantique, Université de Nantes, Nantes 44300, France
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- Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics and The Enrico Fermi Institute, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
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- Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics and The Enrico Fermi Institute, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Instituto de Física, Rio de Janeiro 21.941-611, Brazil
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- Instituto de Física de Cantabria (IFCA), CSIC-Universidad de Cantabria, Santander 39005, Spain
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- Instituto de Física de Cantabria (IFCA), CSIC-Universidad de Cantabria, Santander 39005, Spain
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Aguilar-Arevalo A, Amidei D, Bertou X, Butner M, Cancelo G, Castañeda Vázquez A, Cervantes Vergara BA, Chavarria AE, Chavez CR, de Mello Neto JRT, D'Olivo JC, Estrada J, Fernandez Moroni G, Gaïor R, Guardincerri Y, Hernández Torres KP, Izraelevitch F, Kavner A, Kilminster B, Lawson I, Letessier-Selvon A, Liao J, Matalon A, Mello VBB, Molina J, Privitera P, Ramanathan K, Sarkis Y, Schwarz T, Settimo M, Sofo Haro M, Thomas R, Tiffenberg J, Tiouchichine E, Torres Machado D, Trillaud F, You X, Zhou J. First Direct-Detection Constraints on eV-Scale Hidden-Photon Dark Matter with DAMIC at SNOLAB. Phys Rev Lett 2017; 118:141803. [PMID: 28430473 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.118.141803] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2016] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
Abstract
We present direct detection constraints on the absorption of hidden-photon dark matter with particle masses in the range 1.2-30 eV c^{-2} with the DAMIC experiment at SNOLAB. Under the assumption that the local dark matter is entirely constituted of hidden photons, the sensitivity to the kinetic mixing parameter κ is competitive with constraints from solar emission, reaching a minimum value of 2.2×10^{-14} at 17 eV c^{-2}. These results are the most stringent direct detection constraints on hidden-photon dark matter in the galactic halo with masses 3-12 eV c^{-2} and the first demonstration of direct experimental sensitivity to ionization signals <12 eV from dark matter interactions.
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- Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1040, USA
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- Centro Atómico Bariloche, CNEA/CONICET/IB, Bariloche 8400, Argentina
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
- Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois 60115, USA
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics and The Enrico Fermi Institute, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
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- Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Nacional de Asunción, Asuncion 2169, Paraguay
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- Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Instituto de Física, Rio de Janeiro 21.941-611, Brazil
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- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City 04510, Mexico
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
- Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahia Blanca 8000, Argentina
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- Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Energies (LPNHE), Universités Paris 6 et Paris 7, CNRS-IN2P3, F-75005 Paris, France
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1040, USA
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- Universität Zürich Physik Institut, Zurich 8057, Switzerland
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- SNOLAB, Lively, Ontario P3Y 1N2, Canada
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- Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Energies (LPNHE), Universités Paris 6 et Paris 7, CNRS-IN2P3, F-75005 Paris, France
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- Universität Zürich Physik Institut, Zurich 8057, Switzerland
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- Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics and The Enrico Fermi Institute, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
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- Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Instituto de Física, Rio de Janeiro 21.941-611, Brazil
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- Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Nacional de Asunción, Asuncion 2169, Paraguay
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- Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics and The Enrico Fermi Institute, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
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- Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics and The Enrico Fermi Institute, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
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- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City 04510, Mexico
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- Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1040, USA
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- Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Energies (LPNHE), Universités Paris 6 et Paris 7, CNRS-IN2P3, F-75005 Paris, France
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- Centro Atómico Bariloche, CNEA/CONICET/IB, Bariloche 8400, Argentina
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- Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics and The Enrico Fermi Institute, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- Centro Atómico Bariloche, CNEA/CONICET/IB, Bariloche 8400, Argentina
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- Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Instituto de Física, Rio de Janeiro 21.941-611, Brazil
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- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City 04510, Mexico
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- Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Instituto de Física, Rio de Janeiro 21.941-611, Brazil
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- Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics and The Enrico Fermi Institute, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
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- S S Glasson
- Department of Biological Sciences, OsteoArthritis Sciences Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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Jimenez PA, Harlan PM, Chavarria AE, Haimes HB. Induction of osteoarthritis in guinea pigs by transection of the anterior cruciate ligament: radiographic and histopathological changes. Inflamm Res 1995; 44 Suppl 2:S129-30. [PMID: 8548362 DOI: 10.1007/bf01778296] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
Affiliation(s)
- P A Jimenez
- OsteoArthritis Sciences Inc., Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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