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The DAMA/NaI and DAMA/LIBRA annual modulation data, which may be interpreted as a signal for the existence of weakly interacting dark matter (WIMPs) in our galactic halo, are examined in light of null results from other experiments. We use…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Christopher Savage , Graciela Gelmini , Paolo Gondolo , Katherine Freese

There is a long standing debate about whether or not the annual modulation signal reported by the DAMA/LIBRA collaboration is induced by Weakly Interacting Massive Particles~(WIMP) in the galaxy's dark matter halo scattering from nuclides…

If dark matter is composed of new fundamental particles, Earth's orbital motion around the Sun may induce an annual modulation in the rate at which these particles interact in a terrestrial detector. The DAMA collaboration has identified at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-27 Douglas Q. Adams , Sunniva Jacobsen , Chris Kelso

Recently, the DAMA/LIBRA collaboration released updated results from their search for the annual modulation signal from Dark Matter (DM) scattering in the detector. Besides approximately doubling the exposure of the DAMA/LIBRA data set, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-03 Sebastian Baum , Katherine Freese , Chris Kelso

The DAMA/LIBRA collaboration has reported the observation of an annual modulation in the event rate that has been attributed to dark matter interactions over the last two decades. However, even though tremendous efforts to detect similar…

Some extensions of the Standard Model provide Dark Matter candidate particles which can have a dominant coupling with the lepton sector of the ordinary matter. Thus, such Dark Matter candidate particles ($\chi^{0}$) can be directly detected…

Among the direct search experiments for weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter, the DAMA experiment observed an annual modulation signal interpreted as WIMP interactions with a significance of 9.2$\sigma$. Recently, Jonathan…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-08-26 Eunju Jeon , Yeongduk Kim

The DAMA/LIBRA collaboration has recently released updated results from their search for the annual modulation signal expected from Dark Matter (DM) scattering in their NaI detectors. We have fitted the updated DAMA result for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-07-10 Sunghyun Kang , Stefano Scopel , Gaurav Tomar , Jong-Hyun Yoon

The DAMA/LIBRA experiment shows $9.5 \sigma$ evidence for an annual modulation in the $(1-6)~ {\rm keV}$ energy range, strongly suggesting that the observed modulation has the dark matter origin. However, the conventional interpretation in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-22 Ariel Zhitnitsky

Recently, the CoGeNT collaboration presented a positive signal for an annual modulation in their data set. In light of the long standing annual modulation signal in DAMA/LIBRA, we analyze the compatibility of both of these signal within the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-06-26 Thomas Schwetz , Jure Zupan

Experimental observations and theoretical arguments point out that Dark Matter (DM) particles are one of the most prominent component of the Universe. This motivated the pioneer DAMA experiment to investigate the presence of these particles…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-12 R. Bernabei , P. Belli , V. Caracciolo , R. Cerulli , V. Merlo , F. Cappella , A. d'Angelo , A. Incicchitti , C. J. Dai , X. H. Ma , X. D. Sheng , F. Montecchia , Z. P. Ye

If dark matter is composed of weakly interacting particles, Earth's orbital motion may induce a small annual variation in the rate at which these particles interact in a terrestrial detector. The DAMA collaboration has identified at a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-11-29 Chris Kelso , Christopher Savage , Pearl Sandick , Katherine Freese , Paolo Gondolo

The long-standing model-independent annual modulation effect measured by DAMA Collaboration is examined in the context of asymmetric mirror dark matter, assuming that dark atoms interact with target nuclei in the detector via kinetic mixing…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-09-03 A. Addazi , Z. Berezhiani , R. Bernabei , P. Belli , F. Cappella , R. Cerulli , A. Incicchitti

Dark matter (DM) models with a conserved particle$-$antiparticle number, $n_\chi-n_{\tilde \chi}$, and the asymmetry in the cosmological abundance $n_\chi\neq n_{\tilde \chi}$, are known to be challenged by the existence of old neutron…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-08 Yuxin Liu , Zhen Liu , Maxim Pospelov , Sanjay Reddy

The DAMA experiment searches for Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP) dark matter via its expected but rare interactions within the detector, where the interaction rates will modulate throughout the year due to the orbital motion of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Chris Kelso , Pearl Sandick , Christopher Savage

Data collected during three years with a germanium spectrometer at the Sierra Grande underground laboratory have been analyzed for distinctive features of annual modulation of the signal induced by WIMP dark matter candidates. The main…

Assuming for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) a Maxwellian velocity distribution in the Galaxy we explore in a systematic way the relative sensitivity of an extensive set of existing and projected Dark Matter (DM) direct…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-03-01 Sunghyun Kang , Stefano Scopel , Gaurav Tomar , Jong-Hyun Yoon

The DAMA/LIBRA experiment searches for evidence of Dark Matter scattering off nuclei. Data from DAMA show 9.2 sigma evidence for an annual modulation, consistent with Dark Matter having a cross section around 2x10^(-40) cm^2. However this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-08-22 Jonathan H. Davis

We consider the hypothesis that Dark Matter (DM) has tree-level interactions only with leptons. Such a framework, where DM recoils against electrons bound in atoms, has been proposed as an explanation for the annually modulated…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-01-15 Joachim Kopp , Viviana Niro , Thomas Schwetz , Jure Zupan
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