Explaining the DAMA signal with WIMPless dark matter

被引:71
作者
Feng, Jonathan L. [1 ]
Kumar, Jason [1 ]
Strigari, Louis E. [1 ]
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[1] Univ Calif Irvine, Dept Phys & Astron, Irvine, CA 92697 USA
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10.1016/j.physletb.2008.10.038
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P1 [天文学];
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0704 ;
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WIMPless dark matter provides a framework in which dark matter particles with a wide range of masses naturally have the correct thermal relic density. We show that WIMPless dark matter with mass around 2-10 GeV can explain the annual modulation observed by the DAMA experiment without violating the constraints of other dark matter searches. This explanation implies distinctive and promising signals for other direct detection experiments, GLAST, and the LHC. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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