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$^3$He experimentum crucis for Dark Matter puzzles

Astrophysics 2007-05-23 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

The leading direct dark matter search experiments: CDMS, Edelweis and DAMA/NaI exhibit different results for different approaches to the problem. This contradiction can reflect a nontrivial and probably a multi-component nature of the cosmological dark matter. WIMPs can possess dominantly a Spin Dependent interaction with nucleons. They can be superheavy or represent atom-like systems of superheavy charged particles. The Dark matter can contain a component, which strongly interacts with the matter. We show that even a moderate size superfluid 3^3He detector provides a crucial test for these hypotheses and that its existing laboratory prototype is already of interest for the experimental dark matter search.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0606350,
  title  = {$^3$He experimentum crucis for Dark Matter puzzles},
  author = {K. Belotsky and Yu. Bunkov and H. Godfrin and M. Khlopov and R. Konoplich},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0606350},
  year   = {2007}
}

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18 pages, 7 figures