November 2018

Journal

New Limits on Bosonic Dark Matter, Solar Axions, Pauli Exclusion Principle Violation, and Electron Decay from the Majorana Demonstrator

By:
Abgrall, N.; Arnquist, I.; Bertrand Jr, Fred E; Efremenko, Yuri V; Green, Matthew P; Radford, David C; Shanks, Benjamin E; Varner Jr, Robert L; Wilkerson, John F; Yu, Chang-Hong ; Collaboration, Majorana
Journal Name:
Physical Review Letters
Page Number:
161801
Volume:
118
Issue Number:
16
Publication Date:
November 14, 2018
View DOI Listing:
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.161801

Abstract

We present new limits on exotic keV-scale physics based on 478 kg d of Majorana Demonstrator commissioning data. Constraints at the 90% confidence level are derived on bosonic dark matter (DM) and solar axion couplings, Pauli exclusion principle violating (PEPV) decay, and electron decay using monoenergetic peak signal limits above our background. Our most stringent DM constraints are set for 11.8 keV mass particles, limiting gAe<4.5×10−13 for pseudoscalars and (α′/α)<9.7×10−28 for vectors. We also report a 14.4 keV solar axion coupling limit of geffAN×gAe<3.8×10−17, a 12β21.2×1024  yr for e−→ invisible.