Python code for calculating the prospects of future direct detection experiments to discriminate between Majorana and Dirac Dark Matter (i.e. to determine whether Dark Matter is its own antiparticle). Direct detection event rates and mock data generation are taken care of by a variation of the WIMpy code (also available here).

With this code, the results of arXiv:1706.07819 should be entirely reproducible. Follow the instructions below if you want to reproduce those results. If you find any mistakes or have any trouble at all reproducing any of the results, please open an issue or get in touch directly.

If you have any questions, comments, bug-reports etc., please contact Bradley Kavanagh at [email protected].

Version 1.0.3 (15/09/2017): Added script for plotting illustration of fundamental couplings. Code should now match arXiv-v2.
Version 1.0.2 (06/07/2017): Updated results after fixing some minor bugs.
Version 1.0.1 (27/06/2017): Added arXiv number and fixed a couple of typos.
Version 1.0.0 (23/06/2017): Initial release, including all results and plots from the paper.

• calc: core code for calculating the statistical significance for discriminating between Dirac and Majorana Dark Matter (DM).
• scripts: scripts for reproducing results from the paper (NB: some may need to be implemented on a computing cluster...)
• analysis: scripts for processing the results and generating plots.
• results: data products for a range of DM masses, couplings and experimental ensembles.
• plots: plots from arXiv:1706.07819 (and others).

The majority of the code is written in python, and requires the standard numpy and scipy libraries. For plotting, matplotlib is also required. Code for generating mock data sets and performing likelihood fits are found in the calc folder. Check the README in the calc folder for (slightly) more detail on how it works.

For calculating the discrimination significance for a single point in parameter space, check out the jupyter notebook calc/index.ipynb.

For calculating the discrimination significance over a grid of the input couplings, run the example script scripts/RunFits_couplings.sh.

For calculating the discrimination significance as a function of exposure (for a fixed input), run the example scripts/RunFits_exposure.sh.

Note that these scripts will take a long time to run (think hours to days...). In practice then, you'll probably want to run things on a computing cluster. For this, we provide two python files scripts/RunMPI_couplings.py and scripts/RunMPI_exposure.py, which are MPI-enabled and take care of running large numbers of fits in parallel. To use these, mpi4py is required.

Scripts for generating plots from the results are in the analysis/ folder. To (re-)generate all the plots from the paper, simply run scripts/GeneratePlots.sh.

You can also check that the likelihood calculator works well by running

python CompareNgrid.py mx

in the calc folder (where mx is the DM mass in GeV). This will calculate the maximum likelihood as a function of mass for different densities of grid (showing hopefully that the case of a 50x50x50 grid for Dirac DM works well). There are also some plots to this effect in the plots folder.

We also ran some calculations of the discrimination significance using realistic isotope distributions, to compare with the simple 'single-isotope' approximations used in the paper. In the results folder, these are listed with full after the ensemble. The plot plots/Exposure_R=0.75_comparison.pdf shows the results.

If you make use of the code or the numerical results, please cite the project as:

Kavanagh, B. J., Queiroz, F. S., Rodejohann, W., Yaguna, C. E., "AntiparticleDM" (2017), https://github.com/bradkav/AntiparticleDM/, doi:10.5281/zenodo.815457

Please also cite the associated papers:

Kavanagh, B. J., Queiroz, F. S., Rodejohann, W., Yaguna, C. E., "Prospects for determining the particle/antiparticle nature of WIMP dark matter with direct detection experiments" (2017), arXiv:1706.07819

Queiroz, F. S., Rodejohann, W., Yaguna, C. E., "Is the dark matter particle its own antiparticle?", Phys. Rev. D 95 (2017) 095010, arXiv:1610.06581

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details