2010/04/30 by R. Foot · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Acoustics #Astrophysics #Computer science #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #Dark matter #Detector #Energy (signal processing) #Energy spectrum #Low energy #Materials science #Modulation (music) #Optics #Particle Detector Development and Performance #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #Quantum mechanics #Range (aeronautics) #SIGNAL (programming language) #astro-ph.GA #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2010.07.022
published as Phys.Lett.B692:65-69,2010 · About 8 pages, expanded and updated
arxiv created 2010/07/12 · openalex publication_date 2010/07/16 · arxiv updated 2010/11/16 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
The CoGeNT collaboration has recently reported a rising low energy spectrum in their ultra low noise germanium detector. This is particularly interesting as the energy range probed by CoGeNT overlaps with the energy region in which DAMA has observed their annual modulation signal. We show that the mirror dark matter candidate can simultaneously explain both the DAMA annual modulation signal and the rising low energy spectrum observed by CoGeNT. This constitutes a model dependent confirmation of the DAMA signal and adds weight to the mirror dark matter paradigm.