Year: 2013
Type: article
Abstract: We study how the combined observation of dark matter in various direct detection experiments can be used to determine the phenomenological properties of WIMP dark matter: mass, spin-dependent (SD) and spin-independent (SI) scattering cross section off nucleons. A convenient choice of target materials, including nuclei that couple to dark matter particles through a significantly different ratio of SD vs SI interactions, could break the degeneracies in the determination of those parameters that a single experiment cannot discriminate. In this work we investigate different targets that can be used as scintillating bolometers and could provide complementary information to germanium and xenon detectors. We observe that Al 2 O 3 and LiF bolometers could allow a good reconstruction of the DM properties over regions of the parameter space with a SD scattering cross section as small as 10 −5 pb and a SI cross section as small as 5 × 10 −10 pb for a 50 GeV WIMP. In the case of a CaWO 4 bolometer the area in which full complementarity is obtained is smaller but we show that it can be used to determine the WIMP mass and its SI cross section. For each target we study the required exposure and background.
Language: English
Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
Awards: UNIFICATION IN THE LHC ERA, G2505553545, G2674395445, G3890512357, G4564791563, G558626214, G6167939010, The Cosmology of the Early and Late Universe, G6258656153, G6889587812, NEW GRANT - PREVIOUSLY CONTRACT # DE-AT03-88ER40384. HIGH RATE TRACKING SUBSYSTEM FOR SSC DETECTORS USING SCINTILLATING FIBERS - PI - ATAC, G7031074969, G7541472780, G8121522092
OpenAlex ID: W2017332322