Update on the Halo-Independent Comparison of Direct Dark Matter Detection Data

2014/05/22 by Eugenio Del Nobile, Del Nobile, Eugenio, Graciela B. Gelmini +5
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #hep-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1405.5582

10 pages, 3 figures. To appear in the TAUP 2013 Proceedings

arxiv created 2014/05/22 · arxiv updated 2014/05/23

Abstract

We briefly review the halo-independent formalism, that allows to compare data from different direct dark matter detection experiments without making assumptions on the properties of the dark matter halo. We apply this method to spin-independent WIMP-nuclei interactions, for both isospin-conserving and isospin-violating couplings, updating the existing analyses with the addition of the SuperCDMS bound. We point out that this method can be applied to any type of WIMP interaction.

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