Search for dark matter in the form of hidden photons and axion-like particles in the XMASS detector

Abstract

Hidden photons and axion-like particles are candidates for cold dark matter if they were produced non-thermally in the early universe. We conducted a search for both of these bosons using 800 live-days of data from the XMASS detector with 327 kg of liquid xenon in the fiducial volume. No significant signal was observed, and thus we set constraints on the $\hat{I}{\pm }^{\prime }/\hat{I}\pm$ parameter related to kinetic mixing of hidden photons and the coupling constant $g_{Ae}$ of axion-like particles in the mass range from 40 to 120 keV/$c^2$, resulting in $\hat{I}{\pm }^{\prime }/\hat{I}\pm <6\times 10^{-26}$ and $g_{Ae}<4\times 10^{-13}$. These limits are the most stringent derived from both direct and indirect searches to date.

18 pages, 5 figures