| DATE: |
2011-07-28 11:00 - 12:00 |
| PLACE: |
Kenkyu Honkan 1F, Meeting Room 1 |
| TITLE: |
Isospin-Violating Dark Matter |
| CONTACT: |
Satoshi Shirai, sshirai-AT-post.kek.jp |
| SPEAKER: |
Prof. Danny Marfatia (Kansas University) |
| LANGUAGE: |
English |
| URL: |
http://research.kek.jp/group/www-theory/schedule.html |
| ABSTRACT: |
Abstract: Searches for dark matter scattering off nuclei are typically compared assuming that the dark matter's spin-independent couplings are identical for protons and neutrons. This assumption is neither without consequence nor well motivated. We consider isospin-violating dark matter with one extra parameter, the ratio of neutron to proton couplings. For a single choice of this ratio, the DAMA and CoGeNT signals are consistent with each other and with XENON constraints, and unambiguously predict a signal at CRESST. |
