Exploring the mirror matter interpretation of the DAMA experiment: Has the dark matter problem been solved?
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v5 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
The self consistency between the impressive DAMA annual modulation signal and the differential energy spectrum is an important test for dark matter candidates.Mirror matter-type dark matter passes this test while other dark matter candidates, including standard (spin-independent) WIMPs and mini-electric charged particle dark matter, do not do so well.We argue that the unique properties of mirror matter-type dark matter seem to be just those required to fully explain the data, suggesting that the dark matter problem has finally been solved.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0403043,
title = {Exploring the mirror matter interpretation of the DAMA experiment: Has the dark matter problem been solved?},
author = {R. Foot},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0403043},
year = {2007}
}
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