Reconstructing the WIMP Velocity Distribution from Direct Dark Matter Detection Data with a Non-Negligible Threshold Energy
Abstract
In this paper, we investigate the modification of our expressions developed for the model-independent data analysis procedure of the reconstruction of the (time-averaged) one-dimensional velocity distribution of Galactic Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) with a non-negligible experimental threshold energy. Our numerical simulations show that, for a minimal reconstructable velocity of as high as O(200) km/s, our model-independent modification of the estimator for the normalization constant could provide precise reconstructed velocity distribution points to match the true WIMP velocity distribution with a <~ 10% bias.
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@article{arxiv.1503.04930,
title = {Reconstructing the WIMP Velocity Distribution from Direct Dark Matter Detection Data with a Non-Negligible Threshold Energy},
author = {Chung-Lin Shan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1503.04930},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
21 pages, 6 figures (8 eps plots), 1 table; v2: typos fixed, revised version for publication. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1403.5610, arXiv:1003.5283