Speaker
Itay Yavin
Description
In this talk I will discuss recent results concerning the annual modulations expected in experiments looking for dark matter recoils in the lab. I will begin by describing the general properties of this problem including some new tools. I will then focus on the DAMA result and its relation to the modulations of cosmic muons. I will end by discussing the relation between the modulated and unmodulated parts of a putative signal and how it applies to the signal seen by DAMA.
