WIMP Dark Matter Search Using a 3.1 Tonne-Year Exposure of the XENONnT Experiment

We report on a search for weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter (DM) via elastic DM-xenon-nucleus interactions in the XENONnT experiment. We combine datasets from the first and second science campaigns resulting in a total exposure of 3.1 tonne-years. In a blind analysis of nuclear recoil events with energies above 3.8  keV_NR, we find no significant excess above background. We set new upper limits on the spin-independent WIMP-nucleon scattering cross section for WIMP masses above 10  GeV/𝑐² with a minimum of 1.7 × 10⁻⁴⁷  cm² at 90% confidence level for a WIMP mass of 30  GeV/𝑐². We achieve a best median sensitivity of 1.4 × 10⁻⁴⁷  cm² for a 41  GeV/𝑐² WIMP. Compared to the result from the first XENONnT science dataset, we improve our sensitivity by a factor of up to 1.8.