Tuesday, October 9, 2012

1210.2328 (Pijushpani Bhattacharjee et al.)

Sizing-up the WIMPs of Milky Way : Deriving the velocity distribution of Galactic Dark Matter particles from the rotation curve data    [PDF]

Pijushpani Bhattacharjee, Soumini Chaudhury, Susmita Kundu, Subhabrata Majumdar
The velocity distribution function (VDF) of the hypothetical Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs), currently the most favored candidate for the Dark Matter (DM) in the Galaxy, is determined directly from the rotation curve data of the Galaxy assuming isotropic VDF. This is done by "inverting" --- using Eddington's method --- the Navarro-Frenk-White universal density profile of the DM halo of the Galaxy, the parameters of which are determined, by using Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) technique, from a recently compiled set of observational data on the Galaxy's rotation curve extended to distances well beyond the visible edge of the disk of the Galaxy. The derived most-likely local isotropic VDF strongly differs from the Maxwellian form assumed in the "Standard Halo Model" (SHM) customarily used in the analysis of the results of WIMP direct-detection experiments. A parametrized (non-Maxwellian) form of the derived most-likely local VDF is given. The astrophysical "g-factor" that determines the effect of the WIMP VDF on the expected event rate in a direct-detection experiment can be lower for the most-likely VDF than that for the closest Maxwellian VDF by as much two orders of magnitude at the lowest WIMP mass threshold of a typical experiment.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.2328

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