TY - JOUR
T1 - Towards detection of low mass WIMPs (MWIMP < 10 GeV/c 2)
T2 - Mini-review
AU - Drukier, A. K.
AU - Nussinov, S.
PY - 2013/10/20
Y1 - 2013/10/20
N2 - Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) may constitute most of the matter in the Universe. There are intriguing results from DAMA/LIBRA, CoGeNT and CRESSTII, and more recently CDMS-Si suggesting a relatively light dark matter candidate of mass <10 GeV/c2. At the same time, experiments using heavy nuclear targets such as CDMS-Ge and XENON detectors suggest that there is no DM candidates with MW > 15 GeV/c2. We review the existing experiments and the problems associated with light mass WIMP detection. We find that all six experiments considered (DAMA, CoGeNT, CRESST, CDMS-Si, CDMS-Ge, XENON) are consistent if one assumes that the mass of WIMP is lower than expected: 3.4 < MW < 6.8 GeV/c2. This is followed by a discussion of the properties of "new" detectors, which may enable more reliable detection of low mass WIMPs.
AB - Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) may constitute most of the matter in the Universe. There are intriguing results from DAMA/LIBRA, CoGeNT and CRESSTII, and more recently CDMS-Si suggesting a relatively light dark matter candidate of mass <10 GeV/c2. At the same time, experiments using heavy nuclear targets such as CDMS-Ge and XENON detectors suggest that there is no DM candidates with MW > 15 GeV/c2. We review the existing experiments and the problems associated with light mass WIMP detection. We find that all six experiments considered (DAMA, CoGeNT, CRESST, CDMS-Si, CDMS-Ge, XENON) are consistent if one assumes that the mass of WIMP is lower than expected: 3.4 < MW < 6.8 GeV/c2. This is followed by a discussion of the properties of "new" detectors, which may enable more reliable detection of low mass WIMPs.
KW - Dark matter
KW - Low mass WIMPs
KW - New detectors for DM
KW - WIMPs
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U2 - 10.1142/S0217751X13300330
DO - 10.1142/S0217751X13300330
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AN - SCOPUS:84886777878
SN - 0217-751X
VL - 28
JO - International Journal of Modern Physics A
JF - International Journal of Modern Physics A
IS - 26
M1 - 1330033
ER -