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Cui, Xiangyi; Abdukerim, Abdusalam; Bo, Zihao; Chen, Wei; Chen, Xun; Chen, Yunhua; Cheng, Chen; Cheng, Yunshan; Fan, Yingjie; Fang, Deqing; Fu, Changbo; Fu, Mengting; Geng, Lisheng; Giboni, Karl; Gu, Linhui; Guo, Xuyuan; Han, Ke; He, Changda; He, Jinrong; Huang, Di; Huang, Yanlin; Huang, Zhou; Hou, Ruquan; Ji, Xiangdong; Ju, Yonglin; Li, Chenxiang; Li, Mingchuan; Li, Shu; Li, Shuaijie; Lin, Qing; Liu, Jianglai; Lu, Xiaoying; Luo, Lingyin; Ma, Wenbo; Ma, Yugang; Mao, Yajun; Meng, Yue; Shaheed, Nasir; Ning, Xuyang; Qi, Ningchun; Qian, Zhicheng; Ren, Xiangxiang; Shang, Changsong; Shen, Guofang; Si, Lin; Sun, Wenliang; Tan, Andi; Tao, Yi; Wang, Anqing; Wang, Meng; Wang, Qiuhong; Wang, Shaobo; Wang, Siguang; Wang, Zhou; Wang, Wei; Wang, Xiuli; Wu, Mengmeng; Wu, Weihao; Xia, Jingkai; Xiao, Mengjiao; Xiao, Xiang; Xie, Pengwei; Yan, Binbin; Yan, Xiyu; Yang, Jijun; Yang, Yong; Yu, Chunxu; Yuan, Jumin; Yuan, Ying; Zhang, Dan; Zhang, Minzhen; Zhang, Peng; Zhang, Tao; Zhao, Li; Zheng, Qibin; Zhou, Jifang; Zhou, Ning; Zhou, Xiaopeng; Zhou, Yong; Ge, Shao-Feng; Yuan, Qiang
Physical review letters, 04/2022, Volume: 128, Issue: 17Journal Article
We report a novel search for the cosmic-ray boosted dark matter using the 100 tonne·day full dataset of the PandaX-II detector located at the China Jinping Underground Laboratory. With the extra energy gained from the cosmic rays, sub-GeV dark matter particles can produce visible recoil signals in the detector. The diurnal modulations in rate and energy spectrum are utilized to further enhance the signal sensitivity. Our result excludes the dark matter-nucleon elastic scattering cross section between 10^{-31} and 10^{-28} cm^{2} for dark matter masses from 0.1 MeV/c^{2} to 0.1 GeV/c^{2}, with a large parameter space previously unexplored by experimental collaborations.
