Search for events in XENON1T associated with gravitational waves

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Publication date 01-10-2023
Journal Physical Review D. Particles, Fields, Gravitation, and Cosmology
Article number 072015
Volume | Issue number 108 | 7
Number of pages 9
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Institute of Physics (IoP) - Institute for High Energy Physics (IHEF)
Abstract
We perform a blind search for particle signals in the XENON1T dark matter detector that occur close in time to gravitational-wave signals in the LIGO and Virgo observatories. No particle signal is observed in the nuclear recoil and electronic recoil channels within ± 500 seconds of observations of the gravitational-wave signals GW170104, GW170729, GW170817, GW170818, and GW170823. We use this null result to constrain monoenergetic neutrinos and axion-like particles emitted in the closest coalescence GW170817, a binary neutron star merger. We set new upper limits on the fluence (time-integrated flux) of coincident neutrinos down to 17 keV at the 90% confidence level. Furthermore, we constrain the product of the coincident fluence and cross section of axion-like particles to be less than 10−29  cm2/cm2 in the [5.5–210] keV energy range at the 90% confidence level.
Document type Article
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.108.072015
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