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Dark Matter Interference

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2012-07-10 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Abstract

We study different patterns of interference in WIMP-nuclei elastic scattering that can accommodate the DAMA and CoGeNT experiments via an isospin violating ratio fn/fp=0.71f_n/f_p=-0.71. We study interference between the following pairs of mediators: Z and Z', Z' and Higgs, and two Higgs fields. We show under what conditions interference works. We also demonstrate that in the case of the two Higgs interference, an explanation of the DAMA/CoGeNT is consistent with Electroweak Baryogenesis scenarios based on two Higgs doublet models proposed in the past.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1111.1902,
  title  = {Dark Matter Interference},
  author = {Eugenio Del Nobile and Chris Kouvaris and Francesco Sannino and Jussi Virkajärvi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1111.1902},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

14 pages, 2 figures, references and appendix added, match with the published version

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