No role for muons in the DAMA annual modulation results
Astrophysics of Galaxies
2013-06-07 v3 Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract
This paper gathers arguments and reasons why muons surviving the Gran Sasso mountain cannot mimic the Dark Matter annual modulation signature exploited by the DAMA/NaI and DAMA/LIBRA experiments. A number of these items have already been presented in individual papers. Further arguments have been addressed here in order to present a comprehensive collection and to enable a wider community to correctly approach this point.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1202.4179,
title = {No role for muons in the DAMA annual modulation results},
author = {R. Bernabei and P. Belli and F. Cappella and V. Caracciolo and R. Cerulli and C. J. Dai and A. d'Angelo and A. Di Marco and H. L. He and A. Incicchitti and X. H. Ma and F. Montecchia and X. D. Sheng and R. G. Wang and Z. P. Ye},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1202.4179},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
26 pages, 9 figures. Few arguments added; version accepted for publication on Eur. Phys. J. C