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Directional Search for Isospin-Violating Dark Matter with Nuclear Emulsion

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-06-05 v1

Abstract

Some of direct dark matter searches reported not only positive signals but also annual modulation of the signal event. However, the parameter spaces have been excluded by other experiments. Isospin violating dark matter solves the contradiction by supposing different coupling to proton and neutron. We study the possibility to test the favored parameter region by isospin violating dark matter model with the future detector of dark matter using the nuclear emulsion. Since the nuclear emulsion detector has directional sensitivity, the detector is expected to examine whether the annual modulations observed other experiments is caused by dark matter or background signals.

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@article{arxiv.1205.4915,
  title  = {Directional Search for Isospin-Violating Dark Matter with Nuclear Emulsion},
  author = {Keiko I. Nagao and Tatsuhiro Naka},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1205.4915},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

Prepared for the proceedings of the International Workshop on Grand Unified Theories (GUT2012) held at Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto, Japan, March 2012