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Nature 449, 24 (6 September 2007) | doi:10.1038/449024d; Published online 5 September 2007

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DAMA sheds light on dark-matter particles

Rita Bernabei1 & Alessandro Bottino2

  1. (on behalf of the DAMA Collaboration) Department of Physics, University of Rome Tor Vergata, and INFN Rome Tor Vergata, via della Ricerca Scientifica 1, I-00133 Rome, Italy
  2. Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Torino, and INFN Torino, via P. Giuria 1, I-10125 Torino, Italy

We were disconcerted to see that the experiment XENON10 was the main focus of your News Feature 'Welcome to the dark side' on searches for particle dark matter (Nature 448, 240–245; 2007), even though it is still in its infancy. The well-established DAMA/NaI experiment, on the other hand, was confined to a box titled 'Contested results'.