Is the Dark Disc contribution to Dark Matter Signals important ?

Fu-Sin Ling

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Is the Dark Disc contribution to Dark Matter Signals important ?

Fu-Sin Ling

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Submitted 12 Nov 2009

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The authors' main claim We argue that the enhancement is rather mild, but some subtle effects may arise.

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Recent N-body simulations indicate that a thick disc of dark matter, co-rotating with the stellar disc, forms in a galactic halo after a merger at a redshift $z<2$. The existence of such a dark disc component in the Milky Way could affect dramatically dark matter signals in direct and indirect detection. In this letter, we discuss the possible signal enhancement in connection with the characteristics of the local velocity distributions. We argue that the enhancement is rather mild, but some subtle effects may arise. In particular, the annual modulation observed by DAMA becomes less constrained by other direct detection experiments.

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Recent N-body simulations indicate that a thick disc of dark matter, co-rotating with the stellar disc, forms in a galactic halo after a merger at a redshift $z<2$. The existence of such a dark disc component in the Milky Way could affect dramatically dark matter signals in direct and indirect detection. In this letter, we discuss the possible signal enhancement in connection with the characteristics of the local velocity distributions. We argue that the enhancement is rather mild, but some subtle effects may arise. In particular, the annual modulation observed by DAMA becomes less constrained by other direct detection experiments.

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The velocity dispersion of the dark disk is $50 km s^-1$ [ref] .

New X-ray bound on density of primordial black holes · Accretion onto Floating PBHs · 0.99
For the dark disc we assume as default a Maxwellian VDF with velocity dispersion $σ=50 km/s$ and the relative circular speed to the Sun, $v_lag=50 km/s$ following [ref] and [ref] .

Impact of Dark Matter Velocity Distributions on Capture Rates in the Sun · Dark matter velocity distributions · 0.88

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Our result on SI coupling is in agreement with a previous study done by Ling [ref] .

Impact of Dark Matter Velocity Distributions on Capture Rates in the Sun · Uncertainties on the capture rate · 0.97

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In the literature there have been extensive discussions about the impact of uncertainties related to WIMP phase space on direct detection [ref] and indirect detection for more specific scenarios [ref] .

Impact of Dark Matter Velocity Distributions on Capture Rates in the Sun · Introduction · 0.95
There has been much work on the DM interpretation of the recent DAMA data (see e.g. [ref] ).

A light scalar WIMP through the Higgs portal and CoGeNT · Introduction · 0.99
It should be emphasized that this extra subcomponent of DM is distinct from the dominant cold and collisionless component which makes up the majority of the DM.[It should be noted that the dominant component of DM may also form a disk-like structure [ref] which may influence direct detection signals [ref] .

Exothermic Double-Disk Dark Matter · Introduction · 0.92

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