https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3634-z
Regular Article - Experimental Physics
DAMA annual modulation effect and asymmetric mirror matter
1
Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche e Chimiche, Università di L’Aquila, 67100, Coppito, AQ, Italy
2
INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, 67010, Assergi, AQ, Italy
3
Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma “Tor Vergata” and INFN, Tor Vergata, 00133, Rome, Italy
4
Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma “La Sapienza” and INFN, Roma, 00185, Rome, Italy
* e-mail: rita.bernabei@roma2.infn.it
Received:
18
March
2015
Accepted:
18
August
2015
Published online:
29
August
2015
The long-standing model-independent annual modulation effect measured by DAMA Collaboration is examined in the context of asymmetric mirror dark matter, assuming that dark atoms interact with target nuclei in the detector via kinetic mixing between mirror and ordinary photons, both being massless. The relevant ranges for the kinetic mixing parameter are obtained taking into account various existing uncertainties in nuclear and particle physics quantities as well as characteristic density and velocity distributions of dark matter in different halo models.
© The Author(s), 2015
