Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2000-08-21
Phys.Rev. D63 (2001) 043005
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
6 pages, 6 .ps figures, final version to appear in Phys. Rev. D, figs. 1-3 replotted for clarity, minor changes to discussion
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.63.043005
Currently the best prospect for detecting Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) is via the annual modulation, which occurs due to the Earth's rotation around the Sun, of the direct detection signal. We investigate the effect of uncertainties in our knowledge of the structure of the galactic halo on the WIMP annual modulation signal. We compare the signal for three non-standard halo models: Evans' power-law halos, Michie models with an asymmetric velocity distribution and Maxwellian halos with bulk rotation. We then compare the theoretical predictions of these models with the experimental signal found by the DAMA experiment and investigate how the WIMP mass and interaction cross section determined depend on the halo model assumed. We find that the WIMP mass confidence limits are significantly extended to larger masses, with the shape of the allowed region in the mass-cross section plane depending on the model.
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