Is a WIMP explanation of the DAMA modulation effect still viable?
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2020-05-20 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract
We show that the weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) scenario of proton-philic spin-dependent inelastic dark matter can still provide a viable explanation of the observed DAMA effect in compliance with the constraints from other experiments. We also show that, although the COSINE-100 collaboration has recently tested the DAMA effect using the same target material, for the time being the comparison between DAMA and COSINE-100 still depends on the particle-physics model.
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@article{arxiv.1911.12601,
title = {Is a WIMP explanation of the DAMA modulation effect still viable?},
author = {Gaurav Tomar and Sunghyun Kang and Stefano Scopel and Jong-Hyun Yoon},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.12601},
year = {2020}
}
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4 pages, 1 figure, contribution to the proceedings of the 16th TAUP conference, Sept. 9-13 2019, Toyama, Japan