Markov Chain Monte Carlo analysis to constrain Dark Matter properties with directional detection

Details Markov Chain Monte Carlo analysis to constrain Dark Matter properties with directional detection Markov Chain Monte Carlo analysis to constrain Dark Matter properties with directional detection

2010-12-17

arxiv.org/abs/1012.3960v2

Phys.Rev.D83:075002,2011

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

15 pages, 12 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.83.075002

Directional detection is a promising dark matter search strategy. Indeed, weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP)-induced recoils would present a direction dependence toward the Cygnus constellation, while background-induced recoils exhibit an isotropic distribution in the Galactic rest frame. Taking advantage of these characteristic features and even in the presence of a sizeable background, it has recently been shown that data from forthcoming directional detectors could lead either to a competitive exclusion or to a conclusive discovery, depending on the value of the WIMP-nucleon cross section. However, it is possible to further exploit these upcoming data by using the strong dependence of the WIMP signal with : the WIMP mass and the local WIMP velocity distribution. Using a Markov chain Monte Carlo analysis of recoil events, we show for the first time the possibility to constrain the unknown WIMP parameters, both from particle physics (mass and cross section) and Galactic halo (velocity dispersion along the three axis), leading to an identification of non-baryonic dark matter.

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