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Cold dark matter identification: Diurnal modulation reexamined

Astrophysics 2009-12-30 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We report on new estimates of the modulation expected in semiconductor detectors due to eclipsing of dark matter particles in the Earth. We reevaluate the theoretical modulation significances and discuss the differences found with previous calculations. We find that a significantly larger statistics than previously estimated is needed to achieve the same level of sensitivity in the modulated signal.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9702165,
  title  = {Cold dark matter identification: Diurnal modulation reexamined},
  author = {F. Hasenbalg and D. Abriola and J. I. Collar and D. E. Di Gregorio and A. O. Gattone and H. Huck and D. Tomasi and I. Urteaga},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9702165},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

One change of author and minor revisions to match published version in Phys. Rev. D. LaTeX 6 pages, 8 Postscript figures

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