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First Constraints from DAMIC-M on Sub-GeV Dark-Matter Particles Interacting with Electrons

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arxiv 2302.02372 v2 pith:KRTAZ7YF submitted 2023-02-05 hep-ex astro-ph.CO

First Constraints from DAMIC-M on Sub-GeV Dark-Matter Particles Interacting with Electrons

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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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