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2012

On the Cosmic Ray Muon Hypothesis for DAMA

Pradler, Josef

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The DAMA dark matter search experiment observes a statistically significant percent-level variation of its low-energy count rate with a period of one year.

In this note we recall some of the arguments which challenge the hypothesis that the cosmic ray induced underground muon flux can be the origin of the modulation.
In addition, we provide new comments on recent works on this subject.

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Studies in astronomical time series analysis. II - Statistical aspects of spectral analysis of unevenly spaced data
J. D. Scargle · 1982
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A Prescription for period analysis of unevenly sampled time series
J.H. Horne and S.L. Baliunas · 1986
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First results from DAMA/LIBRA and the combined results with DAMA/NaI
R. Bernabei et al · 2008
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Analysis of the seasonal modulation of the cosmic muon flux in the LVD detector during 2001-2008
M. Selvi · 2009
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New results from DAMA/LIBRA
R. Bernabei et al · 2010
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