Single-hit criterion in DAMA/LIBRA DM search and daemons - they are anything but weakly interacting

TL;DR

This paper suggests that DAMA/LIBRA detects electrically charged Planckian objects called daemons, which interact strongly with matter, challenging the weakly interacting WIMP paradigm and emphasizing the importance of detector surface area for detection.

Contribution

It proposes that daemons are detectable through single-hit events in DAMA/LIBRA and highlights the significance of detector surface area over mass for detecting such particles.

Findings

Confirmation that larger DAMA/LIBRA detects fewer events per unit mass than DAMA/NaI.

Daemons are likely electrically charged Planckian objects, not WIMPs.

Single-hit criteria in DAMA/LIBRA can reveal daemons with velocities of 30-50 km/s and lower.

Abstract

Our prediction that the more massive DAMA/LIBRA detector would detect a smaller number of events per unit of mass and time than the DAMA/NaI system has got confirmation. This is easy to understand, because DM objects are by far not the WIMPs of the Galactic halo that interact only weakly with matter but are apparently instead electrically charged Planckian objects, i.e., daemons which fall from Earth-crossing orbits with V = 30-50 km/s and undergo multiple interaction with condensed matter already in its outer layers, on a path of a few tens of cm. Therefore, one should use not compact massive detectors but rather systems with a large surface area, as we did to detect daemons with thin ZnS(Ag) scintillators. There are grounds to believe that correct use of the single-hit criterion in LIBRA should reveal DM particles with V = 30-50 km/s, and subsequently, with V = 10-15 km/s as well.