Daily Modulation of the Dark Matter Signal in Crystalline Detectors

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2011-09-04

arxiv.org/abs/1109.0735v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics

8 pages, 9 figures, to appear in the Proceedings of the Meeting of the Division of Particles and Fields of the American Physic

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The channeling effect in crystals refers to the orientation dependence of charged ion penetration in crystals. In direct dark matter crystalline detectors, a channeled ion recoiling after a collision with a WIMP gives all its energy to electrons. Thus channeling increases the ionization or scintillation signal expected from a WIMP. Channeling is a directional effect which depends on the velocity distribution of WIMPs in the dark halo of our Galaxy and could lead to a daily modulation of the signal. I will present estimates of the expected amplitude of the daily modulation in direct dark matter detectors, both due to channeling and just due to the rotational velocity of the Earth around itself.

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