First Direct Detection Constraints on Planck-Scale Mass Dark Matter with Multiple-Scatter Signatures Using the DEAP-3600 Detector

Dark matter with Planck-scale mass (≃10^{19}  GeV/c^{2}) arises in well-motivated theories and could be produced by several cosmological mechanisms. A search for multiscatter signals from supermassive dark matter was performed with a blind analysis of data collected over a 813 d live time with DEAP-...

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Published in:Physical review letters 2022-01, Vol.128 (1), p.011801-011801, Article 011801
Main Authors: Adhikari, P, Ajaj, R, Alpízar-Venegas, M, Auty, D J, Benmansour, H, Bina, C E, Bonivento, W, Boulay, M G, Cadeddu, M, Cai, B, Cárdenas-Montes, M, Cavuoti, S, Chen, Y, Cleveland, B T, Corning, J M, Daugherty, S, DelGobbo, P, Di Stefano, P, Doria, L, Dunford, M, Ellingwood, E, Erlandson, A, Farahani, S S, Fatemighomi, N, Fiorillo, G, Gallacher, D, García Abia, P, Garg, S, Giampa, P, Goeldi, D, Gorel, P, Graham, K, Grobov, A, Hallin, A L, Hamstra, M, Hugues, T, Ilyasov, A, Joy, A, Jigmeddorj, B, Jillings, C J, Kamaev, O, Kaur, G, Kemp, A, Kochanek, I, Kuźniak, M, Lai, M, Langrock, S, Lehnert, B, Leonhardt, A, Levashko, N, Li, X, Lissia, M, Litvinov, O, Lock, J, Longo, G, Machulin, I, McDonald, A B, McElroy, T, McLaughlin, J B, Mielnichuk, C, Mirasola, L, Monroe, J, Oliviéro, G, Pal, S, Peeters, S J M, Perry, M, Pesudo, V, Picciau, E, Piro, M-C, Pollmann, T R, Raj, N, Rand, E T, Rethmeier, C, Retière, F, Rodríguez-García, I, Roszkowski, L, Ruhland, J B, Sanchez García, E, Sánchez-Pastor, T, Santorelli, R, Seth, S, Sinclair, D, Skensved, P, Smith, B, Smith, N J T, Sonley, T, Stainforth, R, Stringer, M, Sur, B, Vázquez-Jáuregui, E, Viel, S, Walding, J, Waqar, M, Ward, M, Westerdale, S, Willis, J, Zuñiga-Reyes, A
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Summary:Dark matter with Planck-scale mass (≃10^{19}  GeV/c^{2}) arises in well-motivated theories and could be produced by several cosmological mechanisms. A search for multiscatter signals from supermassive dark matter was performed with a blind analysis of data collected over a 813 d live time with DEAP-3600, a 3.3 t single-phase liquid argon-based detector at SNOLAB. No candidate signals were observed, leading to the first direct detection constraints on Planck-scale mass dark matter. Leading limits constrain dark matter masses between 8.3×10^{6} and 1.2×10^{19}  GeV/c^{2}, and ^{40}Ar-scattering cross sections between 1.0×10^{-23} and 2.4×10^{-18}  cm^{2}. These results are interpreted as constraints on composite dark matter models with two different nucleon-to-nuclear cross section scalings.
ISSN:0031-9007
1079-7114