DM-Ice is a new experimental initiative. By building a 250 kg array of NaI crystals within the volume of the IceCube neutrino detector, DM-Ice will provide a direct check of the DAMA dark matter result. DAMA/LIBRA and its predecessor, DAMA/NaI, are the only experiments that claim to have observed dark matter interacting with ordinary matter. The colored curves show the sensitivity for a 2 year exposure of DM-Ice, under the assumption of different background levels (N0). A null result achieved in 2 years time can exclude the dark matter interpretation of DAMA data (gray patches). The plots were created by Raymond Co, a 2010 Fermilab SULI student, while working with Lauren Hsu and Jonghee Yoo. This work, along with more details on DM-ice, appears in arXiv:1106.1156
– Lauren Hsu