@article{6d83450c2c664c44aff7f6d1105b9ef4,
title = "XENON1T dark matter data analysis: Signal and background models and statistical inference",
abstract = "The XENON1T experiment searches for dark matter particles through their scattering off xenon atoms in a 2 metric ton liquid xenon target. The detector is a dual-phase time projection chamber, which measures simultaneously the scintillation and ionization signals produced by interactions in target volume, to reconstruct energy and position, as well as the type of the interaction. The background rate in the central volume of XENON1T detector is the lowest achieved so far with a liquid xenon-based direct detection experiment. In this work we describe the response model of the detector, the background and signal models, and the statistical inference procedures used in the dark matter searches with a 1 metric ton×year exposure of XENON1T data, that leads to the best limit to date on WIMP-nucleon spin-independent elastic scatter cross section for WIMP masses above 6 GeV/c2.",
author = "{(XENON Collaboration)} and E. Aprile and J. Aalbers and F. Agostini and M. Alfonsi and L. Althueser and Amaro, {F. D.} and Antochi, {V. C.} and F. Arneodo and L. Baudis and B. Bauermeister and Benabderrahmane, {M. L.} and T. Berger and Breur, {P. A.} and A. Brown and E. Brown and S. Bruenner and G. Bruno and R. Budnik and C. Capelli and Cardoso, {J. M.R.} and D. Cichon and D. Coderre and Colijn, {A. P.} and J. Conrad and Cussonneau, {J. P.} and Decowski, {M. P.} and {De Perio}, P. and {Di Gangi}, P. and {Di Giovanni}, A. and S. Diglio and A. Elykov and G. Eurin and J. Fei and Ferella, {A. D.} and A. Fieguth and W. Fulgione and {Gallo Rosso}, A. and M. Galloway and F. Gao and M. Garbini and L. Grandi and Z. Greene and C. Hasterok and E. Hogenbirk and J. Howlett and M. Iacovacci and R. Itay and F. Joerg and S. Kazama and A. Kish",
note = "Funding Information: We gratefully acknowledge support from the National Science Foundation, Swiss National Science Foundation, German Ministry for Education and Research, Max Planck Gesellschaft, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), Netherlands eScience Center (NLeSC) with the support of the SURF Cooperative, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israeli Centers Of Research Excellence (I-CORE), Pazy-Vatat, Initial Training Network Invisibles (Marie Curie Actions, PITNGA-2011-289442), Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia, Region des Pays de la Loire, Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, Kavli Foundation, and Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare. Data processing is performed using infrastructures from the Open Science Grid and European Grid Initiative. We are grateful to Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso for hosting and supporting the XENON project. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2019 American Physical Society.",
year = "2019",
month = jun,
day = "27",
doi = "10.1103/PhysRevD.99.112009",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "99",
journal = "Physical Review D",
issn = "2470-0010",
publisher = "American Physical Society",
number = "11",
}