Search for inelastic WIMP nucleus scattering on ${}^{129}$Xe in data from the XMASS-I experiment

Abstract

A search for inelastic scattering of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) on the isotope ${}^{129}$Xe was done in data taken with the single phase liquid xenon detector XMASS at the Kamioka Observatory. Using a restricted volume containing 41 kg of LXe at the very center of our detector we observed no significant excess of events in 165.9 days of data. Our background reduction allowed us to derive our limits without explicitly subtracting the remaining events which are compatible with background expectations and derive for e.g. a 50 GeV WIMP an upper limit for its inelastic cross section on ${}^{129}$Xe nuclei of 3.2 pb at the 90% confidence level.

13 pages, 7 figures, to be published in PTEP

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