Determining the Mass of Dark Matter Particles with Direct Detection Experiments
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-11-19 v2 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract
In this article I review two data analysis methods for determining the mass (and eventually the spin-independent cross section on nucleons) of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles with positive signals from direct Dark Matter detection experiments: a maximum likelihood analysis with only one experiment and a model-independent method requiring at least two experiments. Uncertainties and caveats of these methods will also be discussed.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0903.4320,
title = {Determining the Mass of Dark Matter Particles with Direct Detection Experiments},
author = {Chung-Lin Shan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0903.4320},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
24 pages, 10 figures, 1 reference added, typos fixed, published version, to appear in the NJP Focus Issue on "Dark Matter and Particle Physics"