The XENON10 experiment at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory uses a 15 kg xenon dual phase time projection chamber to search for dark matter weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs). The detector measures simultaneously the scintillation and the ionization produced by radiation in pure liquid xenon to discriminate signal from background down to 4.5 keV nuclear-recoil energy. A blind analysis of 58.6 live days of data, acquired between October 6, 2006, and February 14, 2007, and using a fiducial mass of 5.4 kg, excludes previously unexplored parameter space, setting a new 90% C.L. upper limit for the WIMP-nucleon spin-independent cross section of 8.8x10;{-44} cm;{2} for a WIMP mass of 100 GeV/c;{2}, and 4.5x10;{-44} cm;{2} for a WIMP mass of 30 GeV/c;{2}. This result further constrains predictions of supersymmetric models.
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Journal: Physical review letters
VOLUME: 100
Page Numbers: 021303
Journal Abbreviation: Phys. Rev. Lett.
ISSN: 0031-9007
DAY: 17
MONTH: 01
YEAR: 2008
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