Halo-Independent analysis of direct dark matter detection data for any WIMP interaction

Abstract

The halo independent comparison of direct dark matter detection data eliminates the need to make any assumption on the uncertain local dark matter distribution and is complementary to the usual data comparison which required assuming a dark halo model for our galaxy. The method, initially proposed for WIMPs with spin-independent contact interactions, has been generalized to any other interaction and applied to recent data on "Light WIMPs".

Comments: Talk given at the 37th. International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP 2014), July 2 to 9, 2014, Valencia, Spain; 7 pages, 7 figures