# ICHEP2012

4-11 July 2012
Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre
Australia/Melbourne timezone
ICHEP2012 - 36th International Conference for High Energy Physics

## Mirror dark matter interpretations of DAMA, CoGeNT and CRESST-II experiments

7 Jul 2012, 11:00
15m
Room 216 (Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre)

### Room 216

#### Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre

Melbourne Australia
Parallel Sessions Track 11. Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology

### Speaker

Dr Robert Foot (University of Melbourne (AU))

### Description

The DAMA, CoGeNT and CRESST-II experiments have announced evidence for the direct detection of dark matter. We discuss these results in the context of the mirror dark matter framework. We show that all three experiments can be simultaneously explained via kinetic mixing induced elastic scattering of a mirror metal component off target nuclei. This metal component can be as heavy as Fe$'$ if the galactic rotational velocity is relatively low: $v_{rot} < 220$ km/s. This explanation is consistent with the constraints from the other experiments, such as CDMS/Ge, CDMS/Si and XENON100 when modest $\sim 20-30\%$ uncertainties in energy scale are considered.

### Primary author

Dr Robert Foot (University of Melbourne (AU))

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