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Inelastic dark matter scattering off Thallium cannot save DAMA
Stockholm Univ, Dept Phys, Oskar Klein Ctr Cosmoparticle Phys, S-10691 Stockholm, Sweden..
KTH, Centres, Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics NORDITA. Stockholm Univ, Dept Phys, Oskar Klein Ctr Cosmoparticle Phys, S-10691 Stockholm, Sweden; Univ Texas Austin, Dept Phys, Austin, TX 78722 USA..ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9490-020x
Univ North Florida, Dept Phys, Jacksonville, FL 32224 USA..
Univ Utah, Dept Phys & Astron, Salt Lake City, UT 84102 USA..
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2021 (English)In: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, E-ISSN 1475-7516, no 10, article id 070Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

We study the compatibility of the observed DAMA modulation signal with inelas-tic scattering of dark matter (DM) off of the 0.1% Thallium (Tl) dopant in DAMA. In this work we test whether there exist regions of parameter space where the Tl interpretation gives a good fit to the most recent data from DAMA, and whether these regions are compatible with the latest constraints from other direct detection experiments. Previously, Chang et al. in 2010 [1], had proposed the Tl interpretation of the DAMA data, and more recently (in 2019) the DAMA/LIBRA collaboration [2] found regions in parameter space of Tl inelastic scattering that differ by more than 10o-from a no modulation hypothesis. We have expanded upon their work by testing whether the regions of parameter space where inelastic DM-Tl scattering gives a good fit to the most recent DAMA data survive the constraints placed by the lack of a DM signal in XENON1T and CRESST-II. In addition, we have tested how these regions change with the main sources of uncertainty: the Tl quenching factor, which has never been measured directly, and the astrophysical uncertainties in the DM distribution. We conclude that inelastic DM scattering off Tl cannot explain the DAMA data in light of null results from other experiments.

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IOP Publishing , 2021. no 10, article id 070
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dark matter theory, dark matter detectors, dark matter experiments
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-305379DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2021/10/070ISI: 000717659800010Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85118656410OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-305379DiVA, id: diva2:1615792
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Available from: 2021-12-01 Created: 2021-12-01 Last updated: 2023-03-28Bibliographically approved

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