Search for an annual modulation of dark-matter signals with a germanium spectrometer at the Sierra Grande Laboratory

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1998-09-02

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9809018v2

Astropart.Phys. 10 (1999) 133-139

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

New version accepted by Astroparticle Physics. Changes suggested by the referee about the theoretical prediction of rates are

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10.1016/S0927-6505(98)00047-4

Data collected during three years with a germanium spectrometer at the Sierra Grande underground laboratory have been analyzed for distinctive features of annual modulation of the signal induced by WIMP dark matter candidates. The main motivation for this analysis was the recent suggestion by the DAMA/NaI Collaboration that a yearly modulation signal could not be rejected at the 90% confidence level when analyzing data obtained with a high-mass low-background scintillator detector. We performed two different analyses of the data: First, the statistical distribution of modulation-significance variables (expected from an experiment running under the conditions of Sierra Grande) was compared with the same variables obtained from the data. Second, the data were analyzed in energy bins as an independent check of the first result and to allow for the possibility of a crossover in the expected signal. In both cases no statistically significant deviation from the null result was found, which could support the hypothesis that the data contain a modulated component. A plot is also presented to enable the comparison of these results to those of the DAMA collaboration.

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