First search for the absorption of fermionic dark matter with the PandaX-4T experiment

Abstract

Compared with the signature of dark matter elastic scattering off nuclei, the absorption of fermionic dark matter by nuclei opens up a new searching channel for light dark matter with a characteristic monoenergetic signal. In this Letter, we explore the $95.0$-day data from the PandaX-4T commissioning run and report the first dedicated searching results of the fermionic dark matter absorption signal through a neutral current process. No significant signal was found, and the lowest limit on the dark matter-nucleon interaction cross section is set to be $1.5\times 10^{-50}$ cm${}^2$ for a fermionic dark matter mass of $40$ MeV/$c^2$ with 90\% confidence level.

6 pages, 6 figures

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