DaMaSCUS

Dark Matter Simulation Code for Underground Scatterings

DaMaSCUS Version 1.1 25/03/2020

GENERAL NOTES

For the underlying physics we refer to the paper .

• DaMaSCUS is a MC simulator of dark matter particles as they move through the Earth and scatter on terrestrial nuclei.
• It allows to compute the local distortions of the DM phase space caused by collisions with nuclei.
• The thusly distorted distribution functions and densities are used to give precise estimates of time-dependent signal rates for direct detection experiments and diurnal modulations.
• A full, realistic model of the Earth is implemented as well as the Earth's time-dependent velocity and orientation in the galactic frame.
• DaMaSCUS is written in C++ and fully parallelized (openMPI).

INSTALLATION AND USAGE

For installation and usage we refer to the documentation.

Updates

The code will be updated continuously. Here I list only important updates and major bug fixes

• 25.03.2020: Release of v1.1
• 16.08.2017: Release of v1.0.2: Re-structuring of the folder structure and new documentation.
• 15.06.2017: Release of v1.0.1: major bug fix concerning mostly very high cross-sections.
• 06.06.2017: Release of v1.0

CITING DaMaSCUS

If you decide to use this code, please cite

Emken, T. & Kouvaris, C., 2017, DaMaSCUS, Astrophysics Source Code Library, record [ascl:1706.003]

as well as the original publication,

Emken, T. & Kouvaris, C., DaMaSCUS: The Impact of Underground Scatterings on Direct Detection of Light Dark Matter, ,

In addition, version 1.1 of the code is archived under

AUTHORS & CONTACT

The authors of DaMaSCUS are Timon Emken and Chris Kouvaris.

For questions, bug reports or other suggestions please contact Timon Emken (emken@chalmers.se).

LICENSE

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