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High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · arXiv:hep-ph/0308254 v3 · submitted 26 Aug 2003

Implications of the DAMA and CRESST experiments for mirror matter-type dark matter

R. Foot

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“Furthermore, we show that the impressive annual modulation signal obtained by the DAMA/NaI experiment can be explained by mirror matter-type dark matter for |ε| ∼ 4 × 10−9 and is supported by DAMA's absolute rate measurement as well as the CRESST/Sapphire data.”

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Mirror atoms are expected to be a significant component of the galactic dark matter halo if mirror matter is identified with the non-baryonic dark matter in the Universe. Mirror matter can interact with ordinary matter via gravity and via the photon-mirror photon kinetic mixing interaction – causing mirror charged particles to couple to ordinary photons with effective electric charge εe. This means that the nuclei of mirror atoms can elastically scatter off the nuclei of ordinary atoms, leading to nuclear recoils, which can be detected in existing dark matter experiments. We show that the dark matter experiments most sensitive to this type of dark matter candidate (via the nuclear recoil signature) are the DAMA/NaI and CRESST/Sapphire experiments. Furthermore, we show that the impressive annual modulation signal obtained by the DAMA/NaI experiment can be explained by mirror matter-type dark matter for |ε| ∼ 4 × 10−9 and is supported by DAMA's absolute rate measurement as well as the CRESST/Sapphire data. This value of |ε| is consistent with the value obtained from various solar system anomalies including the Pioneer spacecraft anomaly, anomalous meteorite events and lack of small craters on the asteroid Eros. It is also consistent with standard BBN.

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Mirror atoms are expected to be a significant component of the galactic dark matter halo if mirror matter is identified with the non-baryonic dark matter in the Universe. background 1.00 0.05 0.05 hedged possibility 0.77
Mirror matter can interact with ordinary matter via gravity and via the photon-mirror photon kinetic mixing interaction -- causing mirror charged particles to couple to ordinary photons with effective electric charge $\epsilon e$. background 1.00 0.05 0.03 asserted 0.69
This means that the nuclei of mirror atoms can elastically scatter off the nuclei of ordinary atoms, leading to nuclear recoils, which can be detected in existing dark matter experiments. background 0.94 0.06 0.05 asserted 0.92
We show that the dark matter experiments most sensitive to this type of dark matter candidate (via the nuclear recoil signature) are the DAMA/NaI and CRESST/Sapphire experiments. result 0.61 0.89 0.20 asserted 1.00
Furthermore, we show that the impressive annual modulation signal obtained by the DAMA/NaI experiment can be explained by mirror matter-type dark matter for $|\epsilon | \sim 4 \times 10^{-9}$ and is supported by DAMA's absolute rate measurement as well as the CRESST/Sapphire data. result 0.98 0.89 0.76 asserted 1.00
This value of $|\epsilon |$ is consistent with the value obtained from various solar system anomalies including the Pioneer spacecraft anomaly, anomalous meteorite events and lack of small craters on the asteroid Eros. interpretation 0.56 0.19 0.06 hedged possibility 0.72
It is also consistent with standard BBN. interpretation 0.52 0.20 0.04 asserted 0.57

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  • [ref] , up-dating earlier studies [ref] , that the mirror dark matter candidate is capable of explaining the positive dark matter signal obtained in the DAMA/Libra experiment [ref] , while also being consistent with the null results of the other direct detection experiments.

    Early Universe cosmology in the light of the mirror dark matter interpretation of the DAMA/Libra signal · Introduction · 0.97

  • In fact, it has been shown in Ref. Foot:2008nw, up-dating earlier studies, [ref] that the mirror dark matter candidate is capable of explaining the positive dark matter signal obtained in the DAMA/LIBRA experiment, [ref] while also being consistent with the results of the other direct detection experiments.

    Cosmology with Mirror Dark Matter · Mirror particles · 0.98

  • It has been shown that the existing signal regions from different direct-detection experiments can be brought in agreement if the DM-nucleon scattering is long-range, mediated by either a massless [ref] or a light particle [ref] , with preferred DM and mediator masses around $m_DM ∼10 GeV$ and $m_ϕ∼10 MeV$ (see also Sec. [ref]).

    Snowmass-2013 Cosmic Frontier 3 (CF3) Working Group Summary: Non-WIMP dark matter · Phenomenology · 0.97

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