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Directional sensitivity, wimp detection, and the galactic halo

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In this article, the Earth's motion relative to the galactic halo should produce halo-dependent seasonal modulation in the event rate, but it also should produce an angular signal that is both stronger and less ambiguous.
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This article is published in Physics Letters B.The article was published on 1999-08-19 and is currently open access. It has received 128 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Galactic halo & Dark matter halo.

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Supersymmetric Dark Matter

TL;DR: In this article, the neutralino is proposed as the lightest superpartner in many supersymmetric theories, and it is shown how to calculate the cosmological abundance of neutralino and event rates for both direct and indirect detection schemes.
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Colloquium: Annual modulation of dark matter

TL;DR: A review of the physics of direct detection of dark matter, discussing the roles of both the particle physics and astrophysics in the expected signals, is given in this article, where the authors discuss the practical formulas needed to interpret a modulating signal.
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Direct detection of WIMP dark matter: concepts and status

TL;DR: In this article, the concepts of direct detection of dark matter in the form of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) in ultra-sensitive detectors located in underground laboratories are reviewed.
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Direct detection of dark matter

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors review the astrophysics and cosmological evidence for nonbaryonic dark matter (DM) and survey the underlying particle theories that provide some guidance about expected event rates, and the future prospects for the discovery of DM.
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The case for a directional dark matter detector and the status of current experimental efforts

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TL;DR: The case for a dark matter detector with directional sensitivity was presented at the 2009 CYGNUS workshop on directional dark matter detection, and contributions from theorists and experimental groups in the field as mentioned in this paper.
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Motion of the Earth and the detection of weakly interacting massive particles

TL;DR: The angular dependence and the amplitude of the seasonal modulation for an isothermal halo model is calculated and it is shown that Earth's motion relative to the galactic halo produces a seasonal modulation in the expected event rate.
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Simple galaxy models with massive haloes

TL;DR: The axisymmetric logarithmic potential introduced by Binney as a simple model of a galactic halo has an elementary distribution function depending on the two classical integrals of motion, binding energy E and angular momentum parallel to the symmetry axis L z as mentioned in this paper.
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Secondary infall model of galactic halo formation and the spectrum of cold dark matter particles on Earth

TL;DR: In this article, the authors generalized the secondary infall model of galactic halo formation to take account of the angular momentum of the dark matter particles and obtained estimates for the velocity magnitudes and the local densities of the particles in these peaks.
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Galactic halo models and particle dark-matter detection

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors calculate detection rates in observationally consistent alternative halo models that produce the same halo contributions to the local and asymptotic rotation speeds to investigate the effects of the theoretical uncertainty of the WIMP spatial and velocity distribution.
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