Comprehensive analysis of the dark matter direct detection experiments in the mirror dark matter framework
- School of Physics, University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010 (Australia)
Mirror dark matter offers a framework to explain the existing dark matter direct detection experiments. Here we confront this theory with the most recent experimental data, paying attention to the various known systematic uncertainties, in quenching factor, detector resolution, galactic rotational velocity, and velocity dispersion. We perform a detailed analysis of the DAMA and CoGeNT experiments assuming a negligible channeling fraction and find that the data can be fully explained within the mirror dark matter framework. We also show that the mirror dark matter candidate can explain recent data from the CDMS/Ge, EdelweissII, and CRESSTII experiments and we point out ways in which the theory can be further tested in the near future.
- OSTI ID:
- 21513054
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 82, Issue 9; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.82.095001; (c) 2010 American Institute of Physics; ISSN 0556-2821
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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