Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2008-04-29
Phys.Rev.D78:043529,2008
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
about 20 pages, 6 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.78.043529
Recently, the DAMA/LIBRA experiment has convincingly confirmed the DAMA/NaI annual modulation signal, experimentally demonstrating the existence of non-baryonic dark matter in the halo of our galaxy. Meanwhile, in another part of town, other experiments such as CDMS and XENON10 have not detected any evidence for dark matter. One promising dark matter candidate which can reconcile the positive DAMA annual modulation signal with the null results from the other experiments, is mirror dark matter. We re-analyse the mirror matter interpretation of the DAMA annual modulation signal utilizing a) the new data from DAMA/LIBRA, including the measured energy dependence of the annual modulation signal b) an updated quenching factor which takes into account the channeling effect in $NaI$ crystals and c) the latest constraints from CDMS/Ge, CDMS/Si and XENON10 experiments. We show that the simplest possibility of a $He'$ (and/or $H'$) dominated halo with a small $O'$ component is sufficient to fully explain all of the dark matter experiments. We also point out that a certain class of hidden sector dark matter models, although theoretically less appealing and less constrained, can mimic the success of the mirror dark matter model and hence are also viable.
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