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SUMMARY:[CTP Seminar] Halo-independent determination of the unmodulated WI
 MP signal in DAMA and other model-independent approaches in the analysis o
 f Dark Matter direct detection data
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170526T050000Z
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170526T060000Z
DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20261115T062808Z
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DESCRIPTION:*Speaker : Prof. Stefano Scopel (Sogang University)\n\n*Abst
 ract :  I will discuss recent progress in developing model-independent t
 echniques that remove the two main sources of theoretical bias in the inte
 rpretation of Dark Matter direct detection data : the scaling law of the W
 IMP-nucleus cross section off different targets\, and the WIMP velocity di
 stribution in our Galaxy.\n\nIn particular I will present a new technique 
 to obtain a halo-independent determination of the time-independent part of
  the signal in an experiment that measures the yearly modulated component\
 , disentangling for the first time the former from the background\, and ap
 ply it to the DAMA data. I will also discuss strategies to make inferences
  on the thermal relic abundance of a Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (
 WIMP) when the same effective dimension-six operator that explains an expe
 rimental excess in direct detection is assumed to drive decoupling at free
 ze-out. In particular\, due to a degeneracy between the WIMP local density
  and the WIMP-nucleon scattering cross section\, a Dark Matter direct dete
 ction experiment is not directly sensitive to the physical cut-off scale o
 f the effective theory\, but the same degeneracy can be used to develop a 
 consistency test on the possibility that the WIMP is a thermal relic in th
 e first place. \n\nhttps://sshep.snu.ac.kr/event/31/
LOCATION:B56 521
URL:https://sshep.snu.ac.kr/event/31/
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