Effective field theory and inelastic dark matter results from XENON1T

Aprile, E.; Abe, K.; Agostini, F.; Ahmed Maouloud, S.; Althueser, L.; Andrieu, B.; Angelino, E.; Angevaare, J. R.; Antochi, V. C.; Anton Martin, D.; Arneodo, F.; Baudis, L.; Baxter, A. L.; Bellagamba, L.; Biondi, R.; Bismark, A.; Brown, A.; Bruenner, S.; Bruno, G.; Budnik, R.; Cai, C.; Capelli, C.; Cardoso, J. M. R.; Cichon, D.; Clark, M.; Colijn, A. P.; Conrad, J.; Cuenca-Garcia, J. J.; Cussonneau, J. P.; D'Andrea, V.; Decowski, M. P.; Di Gangi, P.; Di Pede, S.; Di Giovanni, A.; Di Stefano, R.; Diglio, S.; Eitel, K.; Elykov, A.; Farrell, S.; Ferella, A. D.; Fischer, H.; Fulgione, W.; Gaemers, P.; Gaior, R.; Gallo Rosso, A.; Galloway, M.; Gao, F.; Glade-Beucke, R.; Grandi, L.; Grigat, J.; Guida, M.; Hammann, R.; Higuera, A.; Hils, C.; Hoetzsch, L.; Howlett, J.; Iacovacci, M.; Itow, Y.; Jakob, J.; Joerg, F.; Joy, A.; Kato, N.; Kara, M.; Kavrigin, P.; Kazama, S.; Kobayashi, M.; Koltman, G.; Kopec, A.; Landsman, H.; Lang, R. F.; Levinson, L.; Li, I.; Li, S.; Liang, S.; Lindemann, S.; Lindner, M.; Liu, K.; Loizeau, J.; Lombardi, F.; Long, J.; Lopes, J. A. M.; Ma, Y.; Macolino, C.; Mahlstedt, J.; Mancuso, A.; Manenti, L.; Manfredini, A.; Marignetti, F.; Marrodan Undagoitia, T.; Martens, K.; Masbou, J.; Masson, D.; Masson, E.; Mastroianni, S.; Messina, M.; Miuchi, K.; Mizukoshi, K.; Molinario, A.; Moriyama, S.; Mora, K.; Mosbacher, Y.; Murra, M.; Muller, J.; Ni, K.; Oberlack, U.; Paetsch, B.; Palacio, J.; Peres, R.; Pienaar, J.; Pierre, M.; Pizzella, V.; Plante, G.; Qi, J.; Qin, J.; Ramirez Garcia, D.; Reichard, S.; Rocchetti, A.; Rupp, N.; Sanchez, L.; Dos Santos, J. M. F.; Sarnoff, I.; Sartorelli, G.; Schreiner, J.; Schulte, D.; Schulte, P.; Schulze Eissing, H.; Schumann, M.; Scotto Lavina, L.; Selvi, M.; Semeria, F.; Shagin, P.; Shi, S.; Shockley, E.; Silva, M.; Simgen, H.; Takeda, A.; Tan, P. -L.; Terliuk, A.; Thers, D.; Toschi, F.; Trinchero, G.; Tunnell, C.; Tonnies, F.; Valerius, K.; Volta, G.; Wei, Y.; Weinheimer, C.; Weiss, M.; Wenz, D.; Wittweg, C.; Wolf, T.; Xu, D.; Xu, Z.; Yamashita, M.; Yang, L.; Ye, J.; Yuan, L.; Zavattini, G.; Zhong, M.; Zhu, T.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.109.112017

In this work, we expand on the XENON1T nuclear recoil searches to study the individual signals of dark matter interactions from operators up to dimension eight in a chiral effective field theory (ChEFT) and a model of inelastic dark matter (iDM). We analyze data from two science runs of the XENON1T detector totaling 1 t×yr exposure. For these analyses, we extended the region of interest from [4.9,40.9] keVNR to [4.9,54.4] keVNR to enhance our sensitivity for signals that peak at nonzero energies. We show that the data are consistent with the background-only hypothesis, with a small background overfluctuation observed peaking between 20 and 50 keVNR, resulting in a maximum local discovery significance of 1.7σ for the Vector - Vectorstrange ChEFT channel for a dark matter particle of 70 GeV/c2 and 1.8σ for an iDM particle of 50 GeV/c2 with a mass splitting of 100 keV/c2. For each model, we report 90% confidence level upper limits. We also report upper limits on three benchmark models of dark matter interaction using ChEFT where we investigate the effect of isospin-breaking interactions. We observe rate-driven cancellations in regions of the isospin-breaking couplings, leading to up to 6 orders of magnitude weaker upper limits with respect to the isospin-conserving case.