Direct Detection of WIMP Dark Matter, Sensitivity Plots
..... An interactive plotter for experimental and theoretical data

This page is contiunally kept up to date
with conference and preprint announcements,
as well as published papers. Please let us know
if you would like any corrections/additions made.

(Jan05 rjg) PLEASE NOTE THAT WE HAVE SPLIT THE DATA BELOW INTO RECENT/NOTABLE DATA
AND THOSE THAT ARE SEPARATED INTO AN ARCHIVE SECTION.

The pages are maintained by Rick Gaitskell (Brown University) and Jeff Filippini (UC Berkeley). If you decide to use a plot generated by this site please consider giving this site, and us, a credit. (You can remove the site address label from the plots with the check box at the bottom of the page.)

• Please select the data and the format for the plot you require using the form below. When you have finished the selection press "Generate Plot" once and then wait for the new results page to appear. The new page can take up to 30 secs to appear depending on the server load.

 
• Please note that you can use the browser "Back" button to return to this page, and your data/colour selections from your previous plot will be remembered.

 
• The data sets have not necessarily been endorsed by the Collaborations concerned. However, they do correspond to material that has been published in either journals, or given at conference talks.

 
• We are currently asking for any collaborations involved in dark matter searches to submit new data, or correct any mistakes. If you would like to submit a data set please use the format described here.

 
• A NOTE ON DATA COMPARISON
• We have used the prevailing convention of assuming that the Local Halo Density of Dark Matter is 0.3 GeV/cm^3, and that the characteristic Halo Velocity (v0, not vrms) is 220-240 km/s. (If the published results did not use these assumptions we have made corrections accordingly where possible, or we show a warning.)
• The Spin-Independent Cross-section data is normalised to single nucleon.
• The Spin-Dependent Cross-section data is not YET shown in a format which allows fair comparison. (Dan Tovey, Sheffield, et al. are developing a formalism to allow comparison of different target nuclei on a single graph.)

 
• It is now possible to select the units of the y-axis. If JavaScript is enabled on your browser, changing the selected plot units will update the limit options on this form. If JavaScript is disabled, the plot will still generate correctly but the limits on this form must be entered in the default units (cm2).

 There is a backup cgi server that can be executed from the form at this address if this version appears off-line.