Relic neutralinos and the two dark matter candidate events of the CDMS II experiment

2009/12/31 by A. Bottino, F. Donato, Fiorenza Donato +2 · 3 citations
Medicine · Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics #Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #Dark matter #Medicine #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #Population #astro-ph.CO #hep-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.81.107302

published as Phys.Rev.D81:107302,2010 · 3 pages, 3 figures

arxiv created 2010/04/30 · openalex publication_date 2010/05/14 · arxiv updated 2010/05/25 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

The CDMS Collaboration has presented its results for the final exposure of the CDMS II experiment and reports that two candidate events for dark matter would survive after application of the various discrimination and subtraction procedures inherent in their analysis. We show that a population of relic neutralinos, which was already proved to fit the DAMA/LIBRA data on the annual-modulation effect, could naturally also explain the two candidate CDMS II events, if these are actually due to a dark matter signal.

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