Direct Detection of Dark Matter
* 1996: High-energy-style
experiments have been running for years, in particular looking for axions.
* 2000: Evidence for
WIMPS
reported by the DAMA collaboration at the INFN Gran Sasso Lab, based
on seasonal
variation of events in a shielded NaI scintillator supposedly detecting
50 mp particles – controversial,
and contradicted by the more sophisticated Stanford University CDMS team of
B Cabrera.
* 2005: DAMA results
still controversial, but still quoted.
* 2008: New claims by
DAMA of yearly modulation in the detector signal, indicating a
dark matter "wind"; CoGeNT disputes WIMPS as source.
@ Reviews: Cline SA(03)mar; Bertone a0710-in;
Hooper & Baltz ARNPS(08)-a0802; Feng a0908-in.
@ Experimental searches: Smith & Lewin PRP(90);
Pretzl ed-NJP(00);
Sumner LRR(02);
Loidl ap/02-in;
Araújo pw(05)may;
Baudis IJMPA(06)ap/05-in;
Beck JPCS(06)ap/05 [using
Josephson junctions]; Cooley ap/06-in;
Fornengo ASR(08)ap/06-in;
Spooner a0705/JPSJ;
Zacek a0707-in;
Baudis a0711-in;
Palanque-Delabrouille IJMPA(07);
Saab MPLA(08);
news NYT(08)apr
[new DAMA claims]; news pw(08)apr,
pw(08)aug
[disputed DAMA claims]; Kane & Watson MPLA(08)-a0807 [and
the LHC]; Gelmini IJMPA(08);
Aalseth et al PRL(08)
[re DAMA modulation]; Freese a0812-in;
Lang & Seidel NJP-a0906 [CRESST];
Estrada a0911-in [using CCDs].
@ Detectors in space: Feng NPPS(04);
Kusenko IJMPD(08)ap/06-in
[sterile neutrinos].
@ WIMP detectors: Morales ap/99-in;
Beg et al APL(02)
+ pn(02)apr;
Luscher ap/03 [Boulby
mine]; Bernabei et al RNC(03)ap [DAMA];
Morgan CP(03),
Seidel ap/03-in
[rev]; Birkedal et al PRD(04)hp [at
colliders]; Freese et al PRL(04)
[Sagittarius Stream]; Chardin
ap/04-in
[status]; Mirabolfathi ap/04-in;
news sr(06)nov
[CDMS II experiment]; Landsman ap/06-in
[IceCube as dark matter detector]; Schnee AIP(07)ap/06 [rev];
Benetti et al APP(08)ap/07
[liquid Ar in Gran Sasso]; Wai for GLAST AIP(07)ap;
Behnke et al Nat(08)-a0804 [limits
from bubble chamber experiment]; Sciolla et al a0810-in
[DMTPC]; Ahmed et CDMS PRL(09)
+ van Bibber Phy(09)
[limits on interactions]; Sciolla MPLA(09) [directional].
@ Supersymmetric-dark-matter search: Vergados ap/02-in;
Cline ap/03-in;
Ellis et al PRD(05)hp.
@ Related topics: Boehm et al PRL(04)
[signal in 511 keV photons]; Refregier et al ap/06-in
[DUNE proposed mission]; Strigari et al ApJL(07)ap
[astrometry]; Perl a0809 [questioning
the possibility]; Irastorza a0911-in
[in underground laboratories].
> Online resources: DAMA site.
Other Direct Evidence > s.a. tests
of general relativity [cosmological].
* Microlensing: Amount
produced by small stars in some galaxies indicates 8–16 times as much
mass as from visible stars [@ Langston et al Nat(90)mar];
There may be more stars in halos
and gray dwarves in disks than we thought.
@ MACHOS / microlensing: Bennett et al ap/95-in;
Gould ap/96-in;
De Paolis et al ap/97-in, ap/97-in;
Sutherland RMP(99)ap/98;
Jetzer ap/98-in;
Alcock et al ap/00/ApJL;
Lasserre et al A&A-ap/00.
@ References: Sikivie & Wick PRD(02)
[solar wakes]; Bourjaily ap/04-in
[determining the local density]; Gu et al hp/05 [and
dark energy effects]; Clowe et al ApJL(06)ap
+ sr(06)aug,
Clowe & Zaritsky pw(07)feb
[galaxy
cluster collison].
Dark Matter Distribution > s.a. fractals
in physics.
* 1996: Orbiting Japanese
X-ray telescope ASCA indicates that dark matter is hierarchical, congregates
in galaxies and clusters [@ Ikebe et
al Nat(96)feb].
* 2005: Lensing analysis by Natarajan et al show excellent agreement
with "concordance model" at galactic scales.
* 2006: Study of 12 Milky
Way satellites with VLT shows it clumps at scales above 300 pc, with typical
speed
9 km/s.
* 2007: Map of dark matter
by COSMOS team shows it overlaps with luminous matter over large scales [@
Massey et al Nat(07)jan
+ pw(07)jan].
* 2008: Colliding clusters
MACSJ0025 show separation of dark matter (from lensing) and ordinary hot gas
(from X rays), similar to Bullet Cluster.
@ Reviews: Linder Nat(07)ap.
@ In the Milky Way: Gondolo & Silk PRL(99)
+ pn(99)sep
[near Milky Way core]; Natarajan & Sikivie PRD(07)-a0705 [second
caustic ring]; Bruch et al a0804/PRL
[dark disk]; Siegal-Gaskins JCAP(08)
[from gamma-ray background]; > s.a. types
of dark matter [MACHOS].
@ Other galaxies: Rubin SA(83)jun; Sackett
ap/99-in;
Salucci & Borriello LNP(03)ap/02-in;
Hu & Keeton PRD(02)ap [mapping];
Bolatto et al ap/03-in
[profiles for dwarf galaxies]; Bosma ap/03-in
[overview]; Ascasibar
et al MNRAS(04)ap/03 [origin
of profiles]; Merrifield ap/04-in
[rev]; Kochanek ap/04-in
[and lensing]; Dekel et al Nat(05)ap [elliptical];
Pérez et al A&A(05)ap [barred];
McGaugh PRL(05)ap [rotating];
Salucci ap/05-in
[spirals]; Stoehr et al ap/06-in
[ellipticals]; Wyse and Gilmore a0708-in
[dwarf
spheroidal galaxies]; Spitler & Forbes MNRAS-a0809 [using
globular clusters]; Cowsik et al a0904 [dwarf
galaxy in Fornax]; > s.a. galaxies [LMC
+ SMC].
@ Dark-matter halos:
Macciò et al a0704/MNRAS
[chaos
and shape]; Giocoli et al a0911/MNRAS
[substructure hierarchy].
@ Galaxy clusters: Clowe & Zaritsky pw(07)feb
[Bullet Cluster]; Bournaud
et
al Sci(07)may-a0705 [debris
of galaxy collisions]; Jee et al ApJ(07)-a0705
+ pw(07)may
[ringlike structure around cluster Cl 0024+17]; news an(08)aug
[colliding clusters]; Primack a0909-ln [galaxy formation and clustering].
@ Near / inside the Sun: Bahcall ApJ(84);
Lopes et al MNRAS(02)ap/01 [supersymmetric];
Khriplovich & Pitjeva IJMPD(06)ap,
Khriplovich IJMPD(07)ap [bounds];
Frère et al PRD(08)
[planetary motions]; Adler PLB(09)-a0808 [planet-bound];
Peter PRD(09),
PRD(09)
[WIMPS and the Sun]; Khriplovich & Shepelyansky a0906 [captured
by the Solar
System].
@ Earth-bound: Adler PRD(09)-a0805 [and
flyby anomaly], JPA(08)
[Earth-bound]; Portilho BJP-a0809 [and
Chandler wobble]; Peter PRD(09).
@ Related topics: Tyson PT(92)jun
[mapping with gravitational radiation]; Stiff & Widrow
PRL(03)
[fine structure]; Zhao & Silk PRL(05)ap
[mini-halos]; Zurek et al PRD(07)ap/06 [miniclusters, "ScaMs"];
Hansen a0812/ApJ
[velocity anisotropy].
Other Phenomenological Consequences > s.a. matter
in the universe [electrons]; tests
of the equivalence principle.
@ Dark matter stars: Moskalenko & Wai ap/06 [WIMP-burning
stars]; news pw(07)dec;
Scott
et al MNRAS(09)-a0809 [dark
stars at galactic center];
Spolyar
et al a0901-in
[as precursors to supermassive black holes]; Gondolo et al a0901-in
[formation]; Spolyar et al a0903/ApJ.
@ Cosmological: Afshordi PRD(07),
McDonald PRD(07)
[clustering]; news pw(08)feb [cmb polarization].
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