First Dark Matter Results from the XENON100 Experiment

The XENON100 Collaboration: E. Aprile , K. Arisaka , F. Arneodo , A. Askin , L. Baudis , A. Behrens , E. Brown , J. M. R. Cardoso

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B. Choi D. B. Cline S. Fattori A. D. Ferella K.-L. Giboni K. Hugenberg A. Kish C. W. Lam J. Lamblin R. F. Lang K. E. Lim J. A. M. Lopes T. Marrod\'an Undagoitia Y. Mei A. J. Melgarejo Fernandez K. Ni U. Oberlack S. E. A. Orrigo E. Pantic G. Plante A. C. C. Ribeiro R. Santorelli J. M. F. dos Santos M. Schumann P. Shagin A. Teymourian D. Thers E. Tziaferi H. Wang C. Weinheimer

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The XENON100 experiment, in operation at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Italy, is designed to search for dark matter WIMPs scattering off 62 kg of liquid xenon in an ultra-low background dual-phase time projection chamber. In this letter, we present first dark matter results from the analysis of 11.17 live days of non-blind data, acquired in October and November 2009. In the selected fiducial target of 40 kg, and within the pre-defined signal region, we observe no events and hence exclude spin-independent WIMP-nucleon elastic scattering cross-sections above 3.4 x 10^-44 cm^2 for 55 GeV/c^2 WIMPs at 90% confidence level. Below 20 GeV/c^2, this result constrains the interpretation of the CoGeNT and DAMA signals as being due to spin-independent, elastic, light mass WIMP interactions.

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First Dark Matter Results from the XENON100 Experiment

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