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| Name: Aisha Dantuluri Affiliation: Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad Conference ID: ASI2018_1683 Title : Examining the Statistical Significance of the Annual Modulation suggested by DAMA/LIBRA Authors and Co-Authors : Dr. Shantanu Desai Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad Abstract Type : Poster Abstract Category : Stars,ISM and the Galaxy Abstract : The DAMA/LIBRA experiment has suggested the existence of Dark Matter particles in the galactic halo based on a 9 \sigma claim for annual modulation of the event rates. We re-examine the statistical significance of annual modulation by the DAMA collaboration using three independent model comparison techniques: namely Bayesian evidence, Akaike and Bayesian Information criterion. We calculate all these three metrics using the combined DAMA data and present results for the same. We then compare our results with other estimates for significance in the literature. |