Speaker
Dr
Chiara Arina
(RWTH Aachen)
Description
Recently there has been a huge activity in the dark matter direct detection field, with the report of an excess from CoGeNT
and Cresst, the two events in the CDMS-II along with the annual modulated signal of DAMA/Libra and the strong exclusion bound
from Xenon100. We analyse these results within the framework of bayesian inference. Indeed bayesian methods are well suited for marginalizing over the experimental systematics and the background. We present the results for
spin-independent interaction on nucleus with particular attention to the low dark matter mass region and the compatibility between experiments. In the same vein we also investigate the impact of astrophysical uncertainties on the WIMP preferred parameter space within the class of isotropic dark matter velocity distributions.
Primary author
Dr
Chiara Arina
(RWTH Aachen)
