scholarly journals Phase of the annual modulation as a tool for determining the mass of the weakly interacting massive particle

2004 ◽  
Vol 70 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew J. Lewis ◽  
Katherine Freese
Keyword(s):  
Massive Particle ◽  
Annual Modulation ◽  
Weakly Interacting

scholarly journals WIMP direct detection and halo structure

2004 ◽  
Vol 220 ◽  
pp. 483-488
Author(s):  
Anne M. Green
Keyword(s):  
Direct Detection ◽  
Massive Particle ◽  
Particle Detection ◽  
Annual Modulation ◽  
Halo Structure ◽  
Weakly Interacting ◽  
Galaxy Halos ◽  
The Status ◽  
Modulation Signal ◽  
Background Events

Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP) direct detection experiments are just reaching the sensitivity required to detect Galactic dark matter in the form of neutralinos (or indeed any stable weakly interacting particle). Detection strategies and data analyses are often based on the simplifying assumption of a standard spherical, isothermal halo model, but observations and numerical simulations indicate that galaxy halos are in fact triaxial and anisotropic, and contain substructure. the annual modulation and direction dependence of the event rate (due to the motion of the Earth) provide the best prospects of distinguishing WIMP scattering from background events, however these signals depend sensitively on the local WIMP velocity distribution. I briefly review the status of WIMP direct detection experiments before discussing the dependence of the annual modulation signal on astrophysical input, in particular the structure of the Milky Way halo, and the possibility that the local WIMP distribution is not smooth.

scholarly journals Dark matter candidate with well-defined mass and couplings

2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (25) ◽  
pp. 1730022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roland E. Allen ◽  
Aritra Saha
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Z Bosons ◽  
Massive Particle ◽  
Dark Matter Candidate ◽  
Weakly Interacting

We propose a Higgs-related but spin-[Formula: see text] dark matter candidate with a mass that is comparable to that of the Higgs. This particle is a weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) with an R-parity of [Formula: see text], but it can be distinguished from a neutralino by its unconventional couplings to W and Z bosons. Other neutral and charged spin-[Formula: see text] particles of a new kind are also predicted at higher energy.

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