Theoretical direct WIMP detection rates for transitions to excited states

Understand

The recent WMAP and Planck data have confirmed that exotic dark matter together with the vacuum energy (cosmological constant) dominate in the flat Universe.

• Many extensions of the standard model provide dark matter candidates, in particular Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs).
• %Supersymmetry provides a natural dark matter candidate, the lightest supersymmetric particle (LSP).
• Thus the direct dark matter detection is central to particle physics and cosmology.