Speaker
Sebastian Wild
(TU Munich)
Description
We examine the dark matter interpretation of the modulation signal reported by the DAMA experiment from the perspective of effective field theories displaying Galilean invariance. We consider the most general effective coupling leading to the elastic scattering of a dark matter particle with a nucleon, and by employing a novel statistical approach for comparing direct detection data in this high-dimensional parameter space, we analyze the compatibility of the DAMA signal with the null results from other direct detection experiments as well as from neutrino telescopes. Assuming the standard halo model, we find a strong tension between the dark matter interpretation of the DAMA modulation signal and the null result experiments. We also list possible ways-out to this conclusion.
Primary author
Sebastian Wild
(TU Munich)
