WIMP annual modulation with opposite phase in Late-Infall halo models

Dec, 2000
15 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 64 (2001) 023504
e-Print:
Report number:
  • UCLA-00-TEP-33,
  • CWRU-P13-00

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Abstract:
We show that in the late-infall model of our galactic halo by P. Sikivie the expected phase of the annual modulation of a WIMP halo signal in direct detection experiments is opposite to the one usually expected. If a non-virialized halo component due to the infall of (collisionless) dark matter particles cannot be rejected, an annual modulation in a dark matter signal should be looked for by experimenters without fixing the phase a-priori. Moreover, WIMP streams coming to Earth from directions above and below the galactic plane should be expected, with a characteristic pattern of arrival directions.
  • dark matter
  • galaxy
  • WIMP: search for
  • cosmic radiation: time dependence
  • WIMP: flux
  • WIMP: velocity
  • recoil: energy spectrum
  • scattering: WIMP nucleus
  • numerical calculations