Compatibility of the DAMA/ LIBRA dark matter signal with other experiments

by Prof. Graciela B. GELMINI (UCLA & CERN)

Wednesday 18 Jun 2008, 11:00 → 12:00 Europe/Zurich

1/1-025 (CERN)

Sometime ago it was found that the DAMA dark matter signal was still compatible with the negative results from all other direct DM searches for light WIMPs. The DAMA results have been confirmed by the the same collaboration using a different detector, the DAMA/LIBRA detector. We will present the results of an ongoing investigation of the compatibility of this new result with all other experimental results at present.

• "Compatibility of DAMA dark matter detection with other searches" by Paolo Gondolo, Graciela Gelmini, PRD71:123520 (2005), hep-ph/0504010 (see also hep-ph/0405278)
• "Can WIMP spin dependent couplings explain DAMA data, in light of null results from other experiments?" by Christopher Savage, Paolo Gondolo, Katherine Freese, PRD70:123513 (2004), astro-ph/0408346
• "First results from DAMA/LIBRA and the combined results with DAMA/NaI" by DAMA Collaboration, arXiv:0804.2741