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+2 Death by Dark Matter.

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Showing votes from 2019-07-16 11:30 to 2019-07-19 12:30 | Next meeting is Tuesday Aug 5th, 10:30 am.

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  • Death by Dark Matter.- [PDF] - [Article]

    Jagjit Singh Sidhu, Robert J Scherrer, Glenn Starkman
     

    Macroscopic dark matter refers to a variety of dark matter candidates that would be expected to (elastically) scatter off of ordinary matter with a large geometric cross-section. A wide range of macro masses $M_X$ and cross-sections $\sigma_X$ remain unprobed. We show that over a wide region within the unexplored parameter space, collisions of a macro with a human body would result in serious injury or death. We use the absence of such unexplained impacts with a well-monitored subset of the human population to exclude a region bounded by $\sigma_X \geq 10^{-8} - 10^{-7}$ cm$^2$ and $M_X < 50$ kg. Our results open a new window on dark matter: the human body as a dark matter detector.

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