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XENONnT and dark matter interactions.
Physical Review Letters Collection of the Year 2025
The First Search for Light Dark Matter in the Neutrino Fog with XENONnT (arXiv) was selected to be among the seven most important articles that appeared in Physical Review Letters in 2025. Physical Review Letter is often considered as the most prestigious scientific journal that covers only physics but in its entire breadth. Out of more than 2500 Letter published over the year, the journal selected 63 publications for the Physical Review Letters Collection of the Year 2025.
The XENONnT paper reported on a search for dark matter with masses down to 3 GeV, considering several dark matter models. These low masses were accessible thanks to a lower energy threshold compared to earlier searches. A blind analysis of 3.5 ton x year data revealed no significant excess of events and some new world-leading limits could be placed. In the mass range studied here, the dark matter sensitivity approaches the 'neutrino fog', the limitation where neutrinos produce a signal that is indistinguishable from that of light dark matter-xenon nucleus scattering.
Dark Matter Review among 10 most cited articles
The review Direct detection of WIMP dark matter: concepts and status was published in the Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics already in 2019. However, it creates still lots of attention and is cited at an essentially constant rate until now. This brought the article among the ten most cited works published in this journal. The journal counts 456 citations, which means that this article has received approximately 168 times more citations than the average of other publications in the same field. The particle physics platform INSPIRE even counts 675 citations until today.
