More on molecular excitations: Dark matter detection in ice
Instrumentation and Detectors
2016-08-17 v4 Astrophysics of Galaxies
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract
In this paper we investigate di-atomic molecules embedded in ice crystals under strain. In this environment coherent vibrations of many OH-bonds may be generated by one WIMP collision. The detection of such multiple-photon signals may provide a signature of a 100~GeV/c WIMP. To do a proper lab test of WIMP-induced multi-photon emission is very difficult. We suggest that Ice Cube make a search for multi-photon events, and investigate whether the rate of such events exhibits yearly modulation.
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@article{arxiv.1605.09405,
title = {More on molecular excitations: Dark matter detection in ice},
author = {Jerry Va'vra},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.09405},
year = {2016}
}