Low energy binding of composite dark matter with nuclei as a solution for the puzzles of dark matter searches

Details Low energy binding of composite dark matter with nuclei as a solution for the puzzles of dark matter searches Low energy binding of composite dark matter with nuclei as a solution for the puzzles of dark matter searches

2009-11-30

arxiv.org/abs/0911.5606v1

Bled Workshops in Physics, 10, No.2: 79-94, 2009

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

Proceedings of XII Bled Workshop "What comes beyond the standard model" Bled, Slovenia, July 14-24, 2009

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Positive results of dark matter searches in experiments DAMA/NaI and DAMA/LIBRA taken together with negative results of other groups can imply nontrivial particle physics solutions for cosmological dark matter. Stable particles with charge -2 bind with primordial helium in O-helium "atoms" (OHe), representing a specific Warmer than Cold nuclear-interacting form of dark matter. Slowed down in the terrestrial matter, OHe is elusive for direct methods of underground Dark matter detection like those used in CDMS experiment, but its low energy binding with nuclei can lead to annual variations of energy release in the interval of energy 2-6 keV in DAMA/NaI and DAMA/LIBRA experiments. Schrodinger equation for system of nucleus and OHe is solved for a spherically symmetrical potential, formed by the Yukawa tail of nuclear scalar isoscalar attraction potential, acting on He beyond the nucleus, and dipole Coulomb repulsion between the nucleus and OHe at distances from the nuclear surface, smaller than the size of OHe. The values of coupling strength and mass of meson, mediating scalar isoscalar, are rather uncertain. Within the uncertainties of parameters of nuclear potential we find a range of these parameters, at which the sodium and/or iodine nuclei have a few keV binding energy with OHe. At nuclear parameters, reproducing DAMA results, the energy release predicted for detectors with chemical content other than NaI differ in the most cases from the one in DAMA detector. In particular, it is shown that in the case of CDMS germanium state has binding energy with OHe beyond the range of 2-6 keV and its formation should not lead to ionization in the energy range of DAMA signal. (abridged)

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