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Event rate animations - Earth Map
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posted on 2016-11-17, 17:06 authored by Bradley KavanaghBradley Kavanagh, Riccardo Catena, Chris KouvarisAnimations showing the relative change in the Dark Matter (DM) direct detection rate, caused by DM particles scattering in the Earth. The maps are equal-area Mollweide projections of the whole Earth.
We assume a CRESST-II-like detector in calculating the rate and we consider 3 different DM-nucleon interactions from the NREFT of arXiv:1203.3542: O1, O8 and O12.
In all cases, the DM mass is 0.5 GeV, with DM-nucleon interaction strength set to give a 10% average scattering probability. This part of the parameter space is not currently excluded (as of 17/11/2016).
Files suffixed with 'noD' include only the effects of attenuation and not deflection. The remaining files include both attenuation and deflection.
