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High Energy Physics
Abstract:
Recently the CRESST collaboration has published the long anticipated results
of their direct Dark Matter (DM) detection experiment with a CaWO_4 target. The
number of observed events exceeds known backgrounds at more than 4 sigma
significance, and this excess could potentially be due to DM scattering. We
confront this interpretation with null results from other direct detection
experiments for a number of theoretical models, and find that consistency is
achieved in non-minimal models such as inelastic DM and isospin-violating DM.
In both cases mild tension with constraints remain. The CRESST data can,
however, not be reconciled with the null results and with the positive signals
from DAMA and CoGeNT simultaneously in any of the models we study.
