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Searching for Supersymmetric Dark Matter- The Directional Rate for Caustic Rings. J. D. Vergados Theoretical Physics Division, University of Ioannina, GR-45110, Greece E-mail:Vergados@cc.uoi.gr 0 0 0 Abstract. The detection of the theoretically expected dark matter is central to par- 2 ticle physics and cosmology. Current fashionable supersymmetric models provide a t natural dark matter candidate which is the lightest supersymmetric particle (LSP). c The theoretically obtained event rates are usually very low or even undetectable. So O the experimentalists would like to exploit special signatures like the directional rates and the modulation effect. In the present paper we study these signatures focusing on 2 a specific class of non-isothermal models involving flows of caustic rings. 2 1 1 Introduction v 8 5 In recent years the consideration of exotic dark matter has become necessary in 2 order to close the Universe [1]. Recent data from the High-z Supernova Search 0 Team [2] and the Supernova Cosmology Project [3] , [4] suggest the presence of 1 0 a cosmological connstanta Λ. In fact the situation can be adequately described 0 by a barionic component ΩB = 0.1 along with ΩCDM = 0.3 and ΩΛ = 0.6 (see / also Turner, these proceedings). h p Since this particle is expected to be very massive, mχ ≥ 30GeV , and ex- -