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Direct detection experiments explained with mirror dark matter

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2015-06-16 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

Recently, the CDMS/Si experiment has observed a low energy excess of events in their dark matter search. In light of this new result we update the mirror dark matter explanation of the direction detection experiments. We find that the DAMA, CoGeNT, CRESST-II and CDMS/Si data can be simultaneously explained by halo Fe\sim Fe' interactions provided that vrot200v_{rot} \approx 200 km/s. Other parameter space is also possible. Forthcoming experiments, including CDMSlite, CDEX, COUPP, LUX, C-4,... should be able to further scrutinize mirror dark matter and closely related hidden sector models in the near future.

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@article{arxiv.1305.4316,
  title  = {Direct detection experiments explained with mirror dark matter},
  author = {R. Foot},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1305.4316},
  year   = {2015}
}

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10 pages, matches published version

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