Prospects for detection of target-dependent annual modulation in direct dark matter searches
Abstract
Earth's rotation about the Sun produces an annual modulation in the expected scattering rate at direct dark matter detection experiments. The annual modulation as a function of the recoil energy ER imparted by the dark matter particle to a target nucleus is expected to vary depending on the detector material. However, for most interactions a change of variables from ER to vmin, the minimum speed a dark matter particle must have to impart a fixed ER to a target nucleus, produces an annual modulation independent of the target element. We recently showed that if the dark matter-nucleus cross section contains a non-factorizable target and dark matter velocity dependence, the annual modulation as a function of vmin can be target dependent. Here we examine more extensively the necessary conditions for target-dependent modulation, its observability in present-day experiments, and the extent to which putative signals could identify a dark matter-nucleus differential cross section with a non-factorizable dependence on the dark matter velocity.
- Authors:
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- Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States). Department of Physics and Astronomy; Universita di Padova, and INFN—Sezione di Padova (Italy). Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia
- Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States). Department of Physics and Astronomy
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States). Department of Physics and Astronomy
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1434599
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0009937
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 2016; Journal Issue: 02; Journal ID: ISSN 1475-7516
- Publisher:
- Institute of Physics (IOP)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS; dark matter theory; dark matter experiments
Citation Formats
Nobile, Eugenio Del, Gelmini, Graciela B., and Witte, Samuel J. Prospects for detection of target-dependent annual modulation in direct dark matter searches. United States: N. p., 2016.
Web. doi:10.1088/1475-7516/2016/02/009.
Nobile, Eugenio Del, Gelmini, Graciela B., & Witte, Samuel J. Prospects for detection of target-dependent annual modulation in direct dark matter searches. United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2016/02/009
Nobile, Eugenio Del, Gelmini, Graciela B., and Witte, Samuel J. Wed .
"Prospects for detection of target-dependent annual modulation in direct dark matter searches". United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2016/02/009. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1434599.
@article{osti_1434599,
title = {Prospects for detection of target-dependent annual modulation in direct dark matter searches},
author = {Nobile, Eugenio Del and Gelmini, Graciela B. and Witte, Samuel J.},
abstractNote = {Earth's rotation about the Sun produces an annual modulation in the expected scattering rate at direct dark matter detection experiments. The annual modulation as a function of the recoil energy ER imparted by the dark matter particle to a target nucleus is expected to vary depending on the detector material. However, for most interactions a change of variables from ER to vmin, the minimum speed a dark matter particle must have to impart a fixed ER to a target nucleus, produces an annual modulation independent of the target element. We recently showed that if the dark matter-nucleus cross section contains a non-factorizable target and dark matter velocity dependence, the annual modulation as a function of vmin can be target dependent. Here we examine more extensively the necessary conditions for target-dependent modulation, its observability in present-day experiments, and the extent to which putative signals could identify a dark matter-nucleus differential cross section with a non-factorizable dependence on the dark matter velocity.},
doi = {10.1088/1475-7516/2016/02/009},
journal = {Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics},
number = 02,
volume = 2016,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Feb 03 00:00:00 EST 2016},
month = {Wed Feb 03 00:00:00 EST 2016}
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