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XENON1T implications for the DAMA annual modulation: The good, the bad and the ugly

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2020-11-06 v1

Abstract

Previous work has argued that the DAMA annual modulation signal might be due to electron recoils in plasma dark matter models. A specific model assuming mirror dark matter and featuring collisional shielding of a detector due to Earth-bound dark matter was put forward by this author [arXiv:1806.04293]. That explanation predicted a low energy electron recoil signal in the XENON1T experiment. In light of the excess of electron recoils observed in XENON1T, we re-examine that model's predictions for both DAMA and XENON1T.

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@article{arxiv.2011.02590,
  title  = {XENON1T implications for the DAMA annual modulation: The good, the bad and the ugly},
  author = {R. Foot},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.02590},
  year   = {2020}
}