New Limits on Bosonic Dark Matter, Solar Axions, Pauli Exclusion Principle Violation, and Electron Decay from the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR

April 21, 2017

Journal Article

New Limits on Bosonic Dark Matter, Solar Axions, Pauli Exclusion Principle Violation, and Electron Decay from the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR

Abstract

We present new limits on exotic keV-scale physics based on 478 kg d of MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR commissioning data. Constraints at the 90% confidence level are derived on bosonic dark matter (DM) and solar axion couplings, Pauli exclusion principle violating (PEPV) decay, and electron decay using monoenergetic peak signal limits above our background. Our most stringent DM constraints are set for 11.8 keV mass particles, limiting gAe 1.2 × 1024 yr for e- ? invisible.

Revised: May 4, 2017 | Published: April 21, 2017

Citation

Abgrall N., I.J. Arnquist, F.T. Avignone, A.S. Barabash, F. Bertrand, A.W. Bradley, and V. Brudanin, et al. 2017. New Limits on Bosonic Dark Matter, Solar Axions, Pauli Exclusion Principle Violation, and Electron Decay from the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR. Physical Review Letters 118, no. 16:Article No. 161801. PNNL-SA-125678. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.161801