Phys. Rev. D 80, 115005 (2009) [8 pages]Constraints on inelastic dark matter from XENON10Received 19 October 2009; published 9 December 2009 It has been suggested that dark matter particles which scatter inelastically from detector target nuclei could explain the apparent incompatibility of the DAMA modulation signal (interpreted as evidence for particle dark matter) with the null results from CDMS-II and XENON10. Among the predictions of inelastically interacting dark matter are a suppression of low-energy events, and a population of nuclear recoil events at higher nuclear recoil equivalent energies. This is in stark contrast to the well-known expectation of a falling exponential spectrum for the case of elastic interactions. We present a new analysis of XENON10 dark matter search data extending to Enr=75 keV nuclear recoil equivalent energy. Our results exclude a significant region of previously allowed parameter space in the model of inelastically interacting dark matter. In particular, it is found that dark matter particle masses mχ≳150 GeV are disfavored. © 2009 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.80.115005
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.80.115005
PACS:
95.35.+d, 14.80.Ly, 29.40.Gx, 95.55.Vj
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