First Search for the Absorption of Fermionic Dark Matter with the PandaX-4T Experiment.

Compared with the signature of dark matter elastic scattering off nuclei, the absorption of fermionic dark matter by nuclei opens up a new searching channel for light dark matter with a characteristic monoenergetic signal. In this Letter, we explore the 95.0-day data from the PandaX-4T commissioning run and report the first dedicated searching results of the fermionic dark matter absorption signal through a neutral current process. No significant signal was found, and the lowest limit on the dark matter-nucleon interaction cross section is set to be 1.5×10^{-50}  cm^{2} for a fermionic dark matter mass of 40  MeV/c^{2} with 90% confidence level.

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