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Event rates for CDM detectors from large-scale shell-model calculations

J. ToivanenMarkus KortelainenT. S. KosmasJouni Suhonen

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PhysicsNuclear physicsNuclear and High Energy PhysicsScale (ratio)ScatteringHigh Energy Physics::PhenomenologyNuclear structureNuclear shell modelSuperpartnerLightest Supersymmetric ParticleEvent (particle physics)Computational physicsInterpolation

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Abstract We investigate the scattering of the CDM candidate LSP (Lightest Supersymmetric Particle) off nuclei. We have computed the associated event rates and annual modulation signals for the 23 Na, 71 Ga, 73 Ge and 127 I CDM detectors by using the nuclear shell model in realistic model spaces and exploiting microscopic effective two-body interactions. Large-scale computations had to be performed in order to achieve convergence of the results. We have tabulated the associated nuclear-structure coefficients for several LSP masses enabling easy interpolation of our results for any other mass. The relevance of the spin-dependent and coherent channels for the event rates is discussed, from both the nuclear-structure and the SUSY-model viewpoints.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2006-01-01Physics Letters B
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2005.10.057