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Is a co-rotating Dark Disk a threat to Dark Matter Directional Detection ?

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2015-06-05 v2

Abstract

Recent N-Body simulations are in favor of the presence of a co-rotating Dark Disk that might contribute significantly (10%-50%) to the local Dark Matter density. Such substructure could have dramatic effect on directional detection. Indeed, in the case of a null lag velocity, one expects an isotropic WIMP velocity distribution arising from the Dark Disk contribution, which might weaken the strong angular signature expected in directional detection. For a wide range of Dark Disk parameters, we evaluate in this Letter the effect of such dark component on the discovery potential of upcoming directional detectors. As a conclusion of our study, using only the angular distribution of nuclear recoils, we show that Dark Disk models as suggested by recent N-Body simulations will not affect significantly the Dark Matter reach of directional detection, even in extreme configurations.

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@article{arxiv.1207.1050,
  title  = {Is a co-rotating Dark Disk a threat to Dark Matter Directional Detection ?},
  author = {J. Billard and Q. Riffard and F. Mayet and D. Santos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1207.1050},
  year   = {2015}
}

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17 pages, 7 figures