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Detecting dark matter using centrifuging techniques

Astrophysics 2009-11-07 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Space Physics

Abstract

A new and inexpensive technique for detecting self interacting dark matter in the form of small grains in bulk matter is proposed. Depending on the interactions with ordinary matter, dark matter grains in bulk matter may be isolated by using a centrifuge and using ordinary matter as a filter. The case of mirror matter interacting with ordinary matter via photon-mirror photon kinetic mixing provides a concrete example of this type of dark matter candidate.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0301229,
  title  = {Detecting dark matter using centrifuging techniques},
  author = {S. Mitra and R. Foot},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0301229},
  year   = {2009}
}

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