Effects of residue background events in direct dark matter detection experiments on the reconstruction of the velocity distribution function of halo WIMPs
- Department of Physics, National Cheng Kung University, No. 1, University Road, Tainan City 70101, Taiwan, R.O.C. (China)
In our earlier work on the development of a model-independent data analysis method for reconstructing the (moments of the) time-averaged one-dimensional velocity distribution function of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) by using measured recoil energies from direct Dark Matter detection experiments directly, it was assumed that the analyzed data sets are background-free, i.e., all events are WIMP signals. In this article, as a more realistic study, we take into account a fraction of possible residue background events, which pass all discrimination criteria and then mix with other real WIMP-induced events in our data sets. Our simulations show that, for the reconstruction of the one-dimensional WIMP velocity distribution, the maximal acceptable fraction of residue background events in the analyzed data set(s) of O(500) total events is ∼ 10%–20%. For a WIMP mass of 50 GeV with a negligible uncertainty and 20% residue background events, the deviation of the reconstructed velocity distribution would in principle be ∼ 7.5% with a statistical uncertainty of ∼ 18% ( ∼ 19% for a background-free data set)
- OSTI ID:
- 22272928
- Journal Information:
- Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Vol. 2010, Issue 06; Other Information: Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 1475-7516
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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