Constraints on the interactions between dark matter and baryons from the x-ray quantum calorimetry
Abstract
Although the rocket-based x-ray quantum calorimetry (XQC) experiment was designed for x-ray spectroscopy, the minimal shielding of its calorimeters, its low atmospheric overburden, and its low-threshold detectors make it among the most sensitive instruments for detecting or constraining strong interactions between dark matter particles and baryons. We use Monte Carlo simulations to obtain the precise limits the XQC experiment places on spin-independent interactions between dark matter and baryons, improving upon earlier analytical estimates. We find that the XQC experiment rules out a wide range of nucleon-scattering cross sections centered around 1 b for dark matter particles with masses between 0.01 and 10^5 GeV. Our analysis also provides new constraints on cases where only a fraction of the dark matter strongly interacts with baryons.
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©2007 The American Physical Society (Received 4 April 2007; published 30 August 2007) A.L.E. would like to thank Robert Lupton and Michael Ramsey-Musolf for useful discussions. D.M. thanks the Wallops Flight Facility launch support team and the many undergraduate and graduate students that made this pioneering experiment possible. The authors also thank Randy Gladstone for his assistance with the atmosphere model. A.L.E. acknowledges support from the NSF. P.J.S. is supported in part by the U.S. Department of Energy Grant No. DE-FG02-91ER40671. P.C.M. acknowledges current support for this project from the McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences, as well as prior institutional support for this project from the Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial (INTA) in Spain, from the University of Bielefeld in Germany, and from the University of Arizona.Files
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