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Update on light WIMP limits: LUX, lite and light

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IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2014/03/014

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dark matter theory; dark matter experiments

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  1. NSF [PHY-1068111]
  2. Department of Energy [DE-SC0009937]
  3. Spanish Consolider-Ingenio MultiDark [CSD2009-00064]
  4. Division Of Physics
  5. Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1068111] Funding Source: National Science Foundation

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We reexamine the current direct dark matter data including the recent CDMSlite and LUX data, assuming that the dark matter consists of light WIMPs, with mass close to 10 GeV/c(2) with spin-independent and isospin-conserving or isospin-violating interactions. We compare the data with a standard model for the dark halo of our galaxy and also in a halo-independent manner. In our standard-halo analysis, we find that for isospin-conserving couplings, CDMSlite and LUX together exclude the DAMA, CoGeNT, CDMS-II-Si, and CRESST-II possible WIMP signal regions. For isospin-violating couplings instead, we find that a substantial portion of the CDMS-II-Si region is compatible with all exclusion limits. In our halo-independent analysis, we find that for isospin-conserving couplings, the situation is of strong tension between the positive and negative results, as it was before the LUX and CDMSlite bounds, which turn out to exclude the same possible WIMP signals as previous limits. For isospin-violating couplings, we find that LUX and CDMS-II-Si bounds together exclude or severely constrain the DAMA, CoGeNT and CRESST-II possible WIMP signals.

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