On SUSY dark matter detection with spinless nuclei

Jan 25, 1994
19 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 50 (1994) 7128-7143
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Report number:
  • JINR-E2-93-448

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Abstract: (cern)
We investigate the role of nuclear spin in elastic scattering of Dark Matter (DM) neutralino from nuclei in the framework of the Minimal SUSY standard model (MSSM). Relative contribution of spin-dependent axial-vector and spin-independent scalar interactions to the event rate in a DM detector has been analyzed for various nuclei. Within general assumptions about the nuclear and nucleon structure we have found that for nuclei with the atomic weights A>50A > 50 the spin-independent part of the event rate RsiR_{si} is larger than the spin-dependent one RsdR_{sd} in the domain of the MSSM parameter space allowed by the known experimental data and where the additional constraint for the total event rate R=Rsd+Rsi>0.01R =R_{sd} + R_{si} > 0.01 is satisfied. The latter respects realistic sensitivities of the present and near future DM detectors. Therefore we expect equal chances for discovering the DM-event either with spin-zero or with spin-non-zero isotopes if their atomic weights are A1A2>50A_{1} \sim A_{2} > 50.
  • dark matter
  • sparticle: neutral particle
  • elastic scattering: sparticle nucleus
  • sparticle nucleus: elastic scattering
  • spin dependence
  • dependence: spin
  • supersymmetry
  • sparticle: mass
  • mass: sparticle
  • numerical calculations: interpretation of experiments