Testing the weakly interacting, massive particle explanation of the solar neutrino puzzle with conventional silicon detectors

Abstract

The authors point out that ionization silicon detectors are sensitive enough to allow the search for weakly interacting dark matter particles with proton or neutron number coherent interactions for masses between 4 and 10 GeV/c<SUP>2</SUP>. These are the properties necessary to explain the deficit of solar neutrinos by the cooling of the Sun core by trapped dark matter particles.