The DAMA/NaI set-up of the DAMA experiment has been operative during seven annual cycles and has investigated several rare processes. In particular, it has been realised in order to investigate the model independent annual modulation signature for Dark Matter particles in the galactic halo. With the total exposure collected in the seven annual cycles (107731 kg day) a model independent evidence for the presence of a Dark Matter particle component in the galactic halo has been pointed out at 6.3 sigma C.L.. Some of the many possible corollary model dependent quests for the candidate particle have been presented as well.
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0405282,
title = {DAMA/NaI results},
author = {R. Bernabei and P. Belli and F. Cappella and F. Montecchia and F. Nozzoli and A. Incicchitti and D. Prosperi and R. Cerulli and C. J. Dai and H. H. Kuang and J. M. Ma and Z. P. Ye},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0405282},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
Contributed paper to the Rencontres de Moriond "Electroweak Interactions and Unified Theories", La Thuile, Aosta Valley, Italy, March 2004