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    Abe, K.; Chen, Y.; Hiraide, K.; Ichimura, K.; Imaizumi, S.; Kato, N.; Kobayashi, K.; Kobayashi, M.; Moriyama, S.; Nakahata, M.; Sato, K.; Sekiya, H.; Suzuki, T.; Takeda, A.; Tasaka, S.; Yamashita, M.; Yang, B.S.; Kim, N.Y.; Kim, Y.D.; Kim, Y.H.; Ishii, R.; Itow, Y.; Kanzawa, K.; Martens, K.; Mason, A.; Suzuki, Y.; Miuchi, K.; Takeuchi, Y.; Lee, K.B.; Lee, M.K.; Fukuda, Y.; Ogawa, H.; Kishimoto, Y.; Nishijima, K.; Fushimi, K.; Xu, B.D.; Nakamura, S.

    Physics letters. B, 10/2020, Letnik: 809
    Journal Article

    We have searched for exotic neutrino-electron interactions that could be produced by a neutrino millicharge, by a neutrino magnetic moment, or by dark photons using solar neutrinos in the XMASS-I liquid xenon detector. We observed no significant signals in 711 days of data. We obtain an upper limit for neutrino millicharge of 5.4×10−12e at 90% confidence level assuming all three species of neutrino have common millicharge. We also set flavor-dependent limits assuming the respective neutrino flavor is the only one carrying a millicharge, 7.3×10−12e for νe, 1.1×10−11e for νμ, and 1.1×10−11e for ντ. These limits are the most stringent yet obtained from direct measurements. We also obtain an upper limit for the neutrino magnetic moment of 1.8×10−10 Bohr magnetons. In addition, we obtain upper limits for the coupling constant of dark photons in the U(1)B−L model of 1.3×10−6 if the dark photon mass is 1×10−3 MeV/c2, and 8.8×10−5 if it is 10 MeV/c2.