A novel approach to derive halo-independent limits on dark matter properties

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Ferrer, FrancescPhysics Department and McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences, Washington University in Saint Louis, 1 Brookings Drive—CB 1105, St Louis, MO 63130, U.S.A.; Ibarra, Alejandro(Physik-Department T30d, Technische Universität München, James-Franck-Straße, 85748 Garching, Germany); Wild, Sebastian(Physik-Department T30d, Technische Universität München, James-Franck-Straße, 85748 Garching, Germany);

(2015)

Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing/SISSA

Journal: JCAP (issn: 1475-7516)

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Identifiers: doi: 10.1088/1475-7516/2015/09/052
Subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology | dark matter experiments | dark matter theory | Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
arxiv: Computer Science::Computation and Language (Computational Linguistics and Natural Language and Speech Processing) | Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

We propose a method that allows to place an upper limit on the dark matter elastic scattering cross section with nucleons which is independent of the velocity distribution. Our approach combines null results from direct detection experiments with indirect searches at ne... View more

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