Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 021303 (2008) [5 pages]First Results from the XENON10 Dark Matter Experiment at the Gran Sasso National LaboratoryReceived 31 May 2007; published 17 January 2008 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 8.8×10-44 cm2 for a WIMP mass of 100 GeV/c2, and 4.5×10-44 cm2 for a WIMP mass of 30 GeV/c2. This result further constrains predictions of supersymmetric models. © 2008 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.021303
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.021303
PACS:
95.35.+d, 14.80.Ly, 29.40.Mc, 95.55.Vj
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