Determining Ratios of WIMP-Nucleon Cross Sections from Direct Dark Matter Detection Data

Details Determining Ratios of WIMP-Nucleon Cross Sections from Direct Dark Matter Detection Data Determining Ratios of WIMP-Nucleon Cross Sections from Direct Dark Matter Detection Data

2011-03-02

arxiv.org/abs/1103.0482v2

JCAP 1107:005,2011

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

33 pages, 20 eps figures; v2: typos fixed, references added and updated, revised version for publication

Scientific paper

10.1088/1475-7516/2011/07/005

Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) are one of the leading candidates for Dark Matter. So far the usual procedure for constraining the WIMP-nucleon cross sections in direct Dark Matter detection experiments have been to fit the predicted event rate based on some model(s) of the Galactic halo and of WIMPs to experimental data. One has to assume whether the spin-independent (SI) or the spin-dependent (SD) WIMP-nucleus interaction dominates, and results of such data analyses are also expressed as functions of the as yet unknown WIMP mass. In this article, I introduce methods for extracting information on the WIMP-nucleon cross sections by considering a general combination of the SI and SD interactions. Neither prior knowledge about the local density and the velocity distribution of halo WIMPs nor about their mass is needed. Assuming that an exponential-like shape of the recoil spectrum is confirmed from experimental data, the required information are only the measured recoil energies (in low energy ranges) and the number of events in the first energy bin from two or more experiments.

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