The DAMA/LIBRA set-up (about 250 kg highly radiopure NaI(Tl) sensitive mass) is running at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory of the I.N.F.N.. The first DAMA/LIBRA results confirm the evidence for the presence of a Dark Matter particle component in the galactic halo, as pointed out by the former DAMA/NaI set-up; cumulatively the data support such evidence at 8.2 sigma C.L. and satisfy all the many peculiarities of the Dark Matter annual modulation signature. The main aspects and prospects of this model independent experimental approach will be outlined.
@article{arxiv.0912.0660,
title = {Particle Dark Matter and DAMA/LIBRA},
author = {R. Bernabei and P. Belli and F. Cappella and R. Cerulli and C. J. Dai and A. d'Angelo and H. L. He and A. Incicchitti and X. H. Ma and F. Montecchia and F. Nozzoli and D. Prosperi and X. D. Sheng and R. G. Wang and Z. P. Ye},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0912.0660},
year = {2014}
}
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Contributed paper to the Int. Conf. SciNeGHE 2009, Assisi, Italy, October 2009