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Improved Constraints on Inelastic Dark Matter

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2015-05-13 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We perform an extensive study of the DAMA annual modulation data in the context of inelastic dark matter. We find that inelastic dark matter with mass m > 15 GeV is excluded at the 95% confidence level by the combination of DAMA spectral information and results from other direct detection experiments. However, at smaller m, inelastic dark matter constitutes a possible solution to the DAMA puzzle.

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@article{arxiv.0907.3940,
  title  = {Improved Constraints on Inelastic Dark Matter},
  author = {Kai Schmidt-Hoberg and Martin Wolfgang Winkler},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0907.3940},
  year   = {2015}
}

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22 pages, 7 figures, Reference added, matches published version

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