Prospects for detection of target-dependent annual modulation in direct dark matter searches

Nobile, Eugenio Del; Gelmini, Graciela B.; Witte, Samuel J.

doi:10.1088/1475-7516/2016/02/009

Title: Prospects for detection of target-dependent annual modulation in direct dark matter searches

Journal Article · Wed Feb 03 00:00:00 EST 2016 · Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2016/02/009· OSTI ID:1434599

Nobile, Eugenio Del ^[1]; Gelmini, Graciela B. ^[2]; Witte, Samuel J. ^[2]

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

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 E_R 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 E_R to v_min, the minimum speed a dark matter particle must have to impart a fixed E_R 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 v_min 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.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States). Department of Physics and Astronomy

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Journal Information:: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Vol. 2016, Issue 02; ISSN 1475-7516

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