Resolving DAMA

Abstract

The DAMA collaboration first made their claim for the detection of dark matter in the late 1990s. Since then, there have been many speculations as to the origin of their annual modulation signal and many of the hypotheses have been ruled out. At the same time, many direct detection dark matter experiments using various target medium, including those that use the same target of thallium-doped sodium iodide, have ruled out dark matter as the source of the annual modulation observed in DAMA/NaI and DAMA/LIBRA. In this paper, I will discuss the status of the ongoing efforts to resolve these conflicting observations.