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On the Cosmic Ray Muon Hypothesis for DAMA

2012/05/16 by Josef Pradler, Pradler, Josef
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE) #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #astro-ph.HE #hep-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1205.3675

6 pages, 3 figures; 47th Rencontres de Moriond, Electroweak session; includes new comments on recent works

arxiv created 2012/05/16 · arxiv updated 2012/05/17

Abstract

The DAMA dark matter search experiment observes a statistically significant percent-level variation of its low-energy count rate with a period of one year. In this note we recall some of the arguments which challenge the hypothesis that the cosmic ray induced underground muon flux can be the origin of the modulation. In addition, we provide new comments on recent works on this subject.

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