Sensitivity plots for WIMP modulation searches

CsI(Tl) for WIMP dark matter searches

We report a study of CsI(Tl) scintillator to assess its applicability in experiments to search for dark matter particles. Measurements of the mean scintillation pulse shapes due to nuclear and electron recoils have been performed. We find that, as with NaI(Tl), pulse shape analysis can be used to discriminate between electron and nuclear recoils down to 4 keV. However, the discrimination factor...

Model-independent WIMP Searches at the ILC

Weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) are currently favoured as candidates for Dark Matter, which makes up about 20% percent of the total matter-energy content of the universe. Although the lightest supersymmetric particle, which is the lightest neutralino in many SUSY models, would make a very good WIMP if SUSY with R-Parity conservation is realised in nature, most extensions of the Sta...

Experimental Searches for Non - Baryonic Dark Matter : WIMP Direct Detection

Experimental observations and robust theoretical arguments have established that our universe is essentially non-visible, the luminous matter scarcely accounting for one per cent of the energy density of a flat universe. The distribution of a flat universe (Ω = ΩM + ΩΛ = 1) attributes to the dark energy about ΩΛ ∼ 70%, whereas the matter density takes the remaining ΩM ∼ 30%, consisting of, both...

Status of Direct Searches for WIMP Dark Matter

Astrophysical observations indicate that about 23% of the energy density of the universe is in the form of non-baryonic particles beyond the standard model of particle physics. One exciting and well motivated candidate is the lightest supersymmetric partner particle (LSP), which could be a weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) left over from the Big Bang. To determine that the LSP is the d...

” evidence ” for a WIMP annual modulation