The status of the search for low mass WIMPs: 2012

2012/09/18 by David B. Cline, Cline, David B. · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO) #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det) #Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) #astro-ph.CO #astro-ph.IM #hep-ph #physics.ins-det

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1209.4037

8 pages, 6 figures

arxiv created 2012/09/18 · arxiv updated 2012/09/19

Abstract

Using information from a recent dark matter symposium at Marina del Rey, we discuss the most recent evidence and constraints on low mass WIMPs. There are now five separate experimental limits on such WIMPs, including a new paper on the XENON100 225 day exposure. There are very different experimental methods with different backgrounds that comprise this limit. We speculate on the possible sources of the reported low mass WIMP signals and background.

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