Abstract
Xenon100 is a liquid xenon (LXe) time projection chamber built to search for rare collisions of hypothetical, weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs). Operated in a low-background shield at the Gran Sasso underground laboratory in Italy, Xenon100 has reached the unprecedented background level of <0.15 events/day/keVr in the energy range below 100 keVr in 30 kg of target mass, before electronic/nuclear recoil discrimination. It found no evidence for WIMPs during a dark matter run lasting for 100.9 live days in 2010, excluding with 90 % confidence scalar WIMP-nucleon cross sections above 7 × 10−45 cm2 at a WIMP mass of 50 GeV/c2. A new run started in March 2011, and more than 200 live days of WIMP-search data have been acquired. Results of this second run are expected to be released in summer 2012.
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