Direct and indirect constraints on isospin-violating dark matter

TL;DR

This paper investigates constraints on isospin-violating dark matter from direct detection experiments and indirect cosmic-ray measurements, revealing significant restrictions on the model's parameters.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive analysis of both direct and indirect experimental constraints on IVDM, highlighting the severe limitations on its couplings.

Findings

Constraints from CRESST and SIMPLE are significant.

Antiproton flux measurements further restrict IVDM parameters.

Reconciliation of experimental results is challenged by these constraints.

Abstract

The scenario of isospin-violating dark matter (IVDM) with destructive interference between DM-proton and DM-neutron scatterings provides a potential possibility to reconcile the experimental results of DAMA, CoGeNT and XENON. We explore the constraints on the IVDM from other direct detection experiments such as CRESST and SIMPLE, etc. and from the indirect DM searches such as the antiproton flux measured by BESS-Polar II. The results show that the relevant couplings in IVDM scenario are severely constrained.