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Title: Light dark matter in the light of CRESST-II

Journal Article · · Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
 [1];  [2];  [3]
  1. Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States). Theoretical Physics Dept.
  2. Max Planck Inst. fur Kernphysik, Heidelberg (Germany)
  3. Univ. of Cincinnati, OH (United States)

Recently the CRESST collaboration has published the long anticipated results of their direct Dark Matter (DM) detection experiment with a CaWO4 target. The number of observed events exceeds known backgrounds at more than 4Σ significance, and this excess could potentially be due to DM scattering. We confront this interpretation with null results from other direct detection experiments for a number of theoretical models, and find that consistency is achieved in non-minimal models such as inelastic DM and isospin-violating DM. In both cases mild tension with constraints remain. The CRESST data can, however, not be reconciled with the null results and with the positive signals from DAMA and CoGeNT simultaneously in any of the models we study.

Research Organization:
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-07CH11359
OSTI ID:
1028843
Report Number(s):
FERMILAB-PUB-11-550-T; arXiv eprint number arXiv:1110.2721; TRN: US1105525
Journal Information:
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Vol. 2012, Issue 03; ISSN 1475-7516
Publisher:
Institute of Physics (IOP)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 45 works
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