Exploring the dark matter inelastic frontier with 79.6 days of PandaX-II data

Abstract

We report here the results of searching for inelastic scattering of dark matter (initial and final state dark matter particles differ by a small mass splitting) with nucleon with the first 79.6-day of PandaX-II data (Run 9). We set the upper limits for the spin independent WIMP-nucleon scattering cross section up to a mass splitting of 300 keV/c${}^2$ at two benchmark dark matter masses of 1 and 10 TeV/c${}^2$.

Comments: 5 pages, 6 figures