RECONCILING THE POSITIVE DAMA ANNUAL MODULATION SIGNAL WITH THE NEGATIVE RESULTS OF THE CDMS II EXPERIMENT

10 August 2004

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research article
Published by World Scientific Pub Co Pte Ltd in Modern Physics Letters A

Vol. 19 (24) , 1841-1846
https://doi.org/10.1142/s0217732304015051

Abstract

We examine the recent CDMS II results in the context of the mirror matter interpretation of the DAMA/NaI experiment. We find that the favoured mirror matter interpretation of the DAMA/NaI experiment — a He ′/ H ′-dominated halo with a small O ′ component is fully consistent with the null results reported by CDMS II. While the CDMS II experiment is quite sensitive to a heavy Fe ′ component, and may yet find a positive result, a more decisive test of mirror matter-type dark matter would require a lower threshold experiment using light target elements.

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