The Scientific Reach of Multi-Ton Scale Dark Matter Direct Detection
  Experiments
  The next generation of large scale WIMP direct detection experiments have the
potential to go beyond the discovery phase and reveal detailed information
about both the particle physics and astrophysics of dark matter. We report here
on early results arising from the development of a detailed numerical code
modeling the proposed DARWIN detector, involving both liquid argon and xenon
targets. We incorporate realistic detector physics, particle physics and
astrophysical uncertainties and demonstrate to what extent two targets with
similar sensitivities can remove various degeneracies and allow a determination
of dark matter cross sections and masses while also probing rough aspects of
the dark matter phase space distribution. We find that, even assuming dominance
of spin-independent scattering, multi-ton scale experiments still have
degeneracies that depend sensitively on the dark matter mass, and on the
possibility of isospin violation and inelasticity in interactions. We find that
these experiments are best able to discriminate dark matter properties for dark
matter masses less than around 200 GeV. In addition, and somewhat surprisingly,
the use of two targets gives only a small improvement (aside from the advantage
of different systematics associated with any claimed signal) in the ability to
pin down dark matter parameters when compared with one target of larger
exposure.
