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Prospects for detection of target-dependent annual modulation in direct dark matter searches
Eugenio Del Nobile, Graciela B. Gelmini, Samuel J. Witte
Earth's rotation about the Sun produces an annual modulation in the expected scattering rate at direct dark matter detection experiments. The annual modulation as a function of the…
Extended Maximum Likelihood Halo-independent Analysis of Dark Matter Direct Detection Data
Graciela B. Gelmini, Andreea Georgescu, Paolo Gondolo +1
We extend and correct a recently proposed maximum-likelihood halo-independent method to analyze unbinned direct dark matter detection data. Instead of the recoil energy as independ…
Target dependence of the annual modulation in direct dark matter searches
Eugenio Del Nobile, Graciela B. Gelmini, Samuel J. Witte
Due to Earth's revolution around the Sun, the expected scattering rate in direct dark matter searches is annually modulated. This modulation is expected to differ between experimen…
Gravitational Focusing and Substructure Effects on the Rate Modulation in Direct Dark Matter Searches
Eugenio Del Nobile, Graciela B. Gelmini, Samuel J. Witte
We study how gravitational focusing (GF) of dark matter by the Sun affects the annual and biannual modulation of the expected signal in non-directional direct dark matter searches,…
Low reheating temperatures in monomial and binomial inflationary potentials
Thomas Rehagen, Graciela B. Gelmini
We investigate the allowed range of reheating temperature values in light of the Planck 2015 results and the recent joint analysis of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) data from th…
Reevaluation of spin-dependent WIMP-proton interactions as an explanation of the DAMA data
Eugenio Del Nobile, Graciela B. Gelmini, Andreea Georgescu +1
We reexamine the interpretation of the annual modulation signal observed by the DAMA experiment as due to WIMPs with a spin-dependent coupling mostly to protons. We consider both a…