A Realistic Assessment of the Sensitivity of XENON10 and XENON100 to Light-Mass WIMPs

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2011-06-03

arxiv.org/abs/1106.0653v3

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

Fig. 1 updated to include new ZEPLIN-III measurements of Leff (arXiv:1106.0694). Version submitted for publication. v3: minor

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The underlaying assumptions and uncertainties involved in the derivation of WIMP exclusion limits from XENON10 and XENON100 detectors are examined. In view of these, recent claims of sensitivity to light-mass Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) are shown to be overstated. Specifically, bounds constraining regions of interest in WIMP parameter space from the DAMA/LIBRA, CoGeNT and CRESST experiments can be assigned a very limited meaning, if any.

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