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Detection prospects for Majorana fermion WIMPless dark matter

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PHYSICAL REVIEW D
Volume 84, Issue 1, Pages -

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AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.84.014020

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  1. DOE [DE-FG02-04ER41291]
  2. National Science Foundation [PHY-0969020, PHY-0455649]

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We consider both velocity-dependent and velocity-independent contributions to spin-dependent (SD) and spin-independent (SI) nuclear scattering (including one-loop corrections) of WIMPless dark matter, in the case where the dark matter candidate is a Majorana fermion. We find that spin-independent scattering arises only from the mixing of exotic squarks or from velocity-dependent terms. Nevertheless (and contrary to the case of minimal supersymmetric standard model neutralino WIMPs), we find a class of models which cannot be detected through SI scattering, but can be detected at IceCube/DeepCore through SD scattering. We study the detection prospects for both SI and SD detection strategies for a large range of Majorana fermion WIMPless model parameters.

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