8–13 Sept 2013
Asilomar, California
US/Pacific timezone

Halo-independent tests relevant for inelastic dark matter scattering

11 Sept 2013, 16:40
20m
Asilomar, California

Asilomar, California

Asilomar Conference Grounds, 800 Asilomar Avenue, Pacific Grove, CA 93950-3704
Oral Dark Matter Dark Matter VI

Speaker

Nassim Bozorgnia (Max Planck Heidelberg)

Description

One of the most important signatures of dark matter in direct detection is the annual modulation of the signal, due to the motion of the Earth around the Sun. In inelastic scattering, the minimum velocity a WIMP must have to deposit a recoil energy at the threshold of the detector is already close to the galactic escape velocity. In this case the experiment probes the tails of the dark matter halo velocity distribution where halo substructures are expected. I will present halo-independent methods to analyze the results of direct dark matter detection experiments assuming inelastic scattering. I will specifically discuss the consistency of the inelastic scattering interpretation of the DAMA annual modulation signal, focusing on the tension with the bound from XENON100.

Primary author

Nassim Bozorgnia (Max Planck Heidelberg)

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