The expected background spectrum in NaI dark matter detectors and the DAMA result

Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 91-96

  Kudryavtsev, V A ^a   Robinson, M ^a   Spooner, N J C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Background radiation; DAMA experiment; Dark matter; Radioactivity; WIMPs

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND RADIATION; BACKGROUND SPECTRA; DARK MATTER; DARK MATTER DETECTORS; MODULATION EFFECTS; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPERIMENTS; GALAXIES; ISOTOPES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RADIATION;

RADIOACTIVITY;

EID: 76349087584     PISSN: 09276505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.astropartphys.2009.12.003     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. Bernabei R., et al. Phys. Lett. B 424 (1998) 195
2. Bernabei R., et al. Phys. Lett. B 480 (2000) 23
3. Bernabei R., et al. Eur. Phys. J. C 56 (2008) 333 arXiv:0804.2741v1 [astro-ph]
4. Bernabei R., et al. Nucl. Instrum. Meth. Phys. Res. A 592 (2008) 297 arXiv:0804.2738v1 [astro-ph]
5. Drukier K.A., et al. Phys. Rev. D 33 (1986) 3495
6. Freese K., et al. Phys. Rev. D 37 (1988) 3388
7. Fairbairn M., and Schwetz T. JCAP 01 (2009) 037 arXiv:0808.0704v2 [hep-ph]
8. Savage C., et al. JCAP 04 (2009) 010 arXiv:0808.3607v3 [astro-ph]
9. S. Chang, A. Pierce, N. Weiner, arXiv:0808.196v1 [hep-ph].
10. Alner G.J., et al., The UK Dark Matter Collaboration. Phys. Lett. B 616 (2005) 17
11. Carson M.J., et al. Astropart. Phys. 21 (2004) 667
12. Carson M.J., et al. Nucl. Instrum. Meth. Phys. Res. A 546 (2003) 509
13. Tomasello V., Kudryavtsev V.A., and Robinson M. Nucl. Instrum. Meth. Phys. Res. A 595 (2003) 431
14. M. Drees, G. Gerbier, Dark Matter, p. 235; W.-M. Yao et al., Review of Particle Physics, J. Phys. G, 33 (2006) 1.
15. Agostinelli S., et al., GEANT4 Collaboration. Nucl. Instrum. Meth. Phys. Res. A 506 (2003) 250
16. D. Budjas, L. Pandola, GERDA Report GSTR-07-010 (2007); L. Pandola, Private Communication.
17. Gerbier G., et al. Astropart. Phys. 11 (1999) 287
18. G. Gerbier, Talk at the 16th International Conference on Supersymmetry and the Unification of Fundamental Interactions - SUSY08 (June 16-21, 2008, Seoul, Korea). .