JOINT INPA/RPM Seminar | Michelle Galloway (University of Zurich) “Observation of excess electronic recoil events in XENON1T”

Abstract:

A search for new physics with XENON1T revealed an excess of electronic recoil events in the (1 – 7) keV region, favoring signal over background with significances of 3.5 sigma for solar axions/ALPs, 3.2 sigma for an enhanced neutrino magnetic moment, and 3.0 sigma global (4.0 local) for bosonic dark matter with a peak at 2.3 +- 0.2 keV (68% C.L.). Additionally, a previously undetected tritium component, favoured at 3.2 sigma over known backgrounds, can neither be confirmed nor excluded. I will provide an overview of the XENON1T detection and analysis methods for this search, a characterization of the excess events, and present results for both possible backgrounds and potential new physics.

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