VERGADOS, J.D.; QUENTIN, P.; STROTTMAN, D.

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VERGADOS, J.D.

QUENTIN, P.
Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires de Bordeaux Gradignan [CENBG]

STROTTMAN, D.

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International Journal of Modern Physics E. 2005, vol. 14, p. 751-762

World Scientific Publishing

Résumé en anglais

The recent WMAP data have confirmed that exotic dark matter together with the vacuum energy (cosmological constant) dominate in the flat universe. Supersymmetry provides a natural dark matter candidate, the lightest supersymmetric particle (LSP). Thus direct dark matter detection is central to particle physics and cosmology. Most of the research on this issue has hitherto focused on the detection of the recoiling nucleus. In this paper, we study transitions to the excited states, focusing on the first excited state at 50 keV of Iodine A=127. We find that the transition rate to this excited state is ≼10 percent of the transition to the ground state. So, in principle, the extra signature of the gamma ray following its de-excitation can be exploited experimentally.< Réduire

Mots clés en anglais

Supersymmetry

WIMPS

CDM

nuclear structure

iodine

excited states

collective model

Origine

Importé de hal

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Centre d'Études Nucléaires de Bordeaux Gradignan (CENBG)