https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-012-2064-4
Regular Article - Experimental Physics
No role for muons in the DAMA annual modulation results
1
Dip. di Fisica, Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”, 00133, Rome, Italy
2
INFN, sez. Roma “Tor Vergata”, 00133, Rome, Italy
3
Dip. di Fisica, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, 00185, Rome, Italy
4
INFN, sez. Roma, 00185, Rome, Italy
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Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I.N.F.N., Assergi, Italy
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IHEP, Chinese Academy, P.O. Box 918/3, Beijing, 100039, China
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Laboratorio Sperimentale Policentrico di Ingegneria Medica, Università degli Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy
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University of Jing Gangshan, Jiangxi, China
* e-mail: rita.bernabei@roma2.infn.it
Received:
28
February
2012
Revised:
7
June
2012
Published online:
6
July
2012
This paper gathers arguments and reasons why muons surviving the Gran Sasso mountain cannot mimic the Dark Matter annual modulation signature exploited by the DAMA/NaI and DAMA/LIBRA experiments. A number of these items have already been presented in individual papers. Further arguments have been addressed here in order to present a comprehensive collection and to enable a wider community to correctly approach this point.
© Springer-Verlag / Società Italiana di Fisica, 2012
