Particle Dark Matter in DAMA/LIBRA

Abstract

The present DAMA/LIBRA experiment and the former DAMA/NaI have cumulatively released so far the results obtained with the data collected over 13 annual cycles (total exposure: 1.17 ton $\times$ yr). They give a model independent evidence of the presence of DM particles in the galactic halo on the basis of the DM annual modulation signature at 8.9 $\sigma$ C.L. for the cumulative exposure.

Contribution to the Vulcano Workshop 2010 "Frontier Objects in Astrophysics and Particle Physics", Vulcano (Italy) May 2010. Recent DAMA/LIBRA results are summarized; some misleading arguments recently addressed are also quantitatively commented and erased

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