No role for neutrons, muons and solar neutrinos in the DAMA annual modulation results

Abstract

This paper summarizes in a simple and intuitive way why the neutrons, the muons and the solar neutrinos cannot give any significant contribution to the DAMA annual modulation results. A number of these elements have already been presented in individual papers; they are recalled here. Afterwards, few simple considerations are summarized which already demonstrate the incorrectness of the claim reported in PRL 113 (2014) 081302.

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References in corpus (5)

• First results from DAMA/LIBRA and the combined results with DAMA/NaI
• New results from DAMA/LIBRA
• Solar neutrino measurements in Super-Kamiokande-II
• The DAMA/LIBRA apparatus
• Fitting the annual modulation in DAMA with neutrons from muons and neutrinos

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