DAMA/LIBRA reports an annual modulation at cumulative 13σ with the textbook dark matter phase, sustained across twenty years, while xenon experiments excluded the implied WIMP space long ago and the matched-material replications, ANAIS-112 and COSINE-100, now find no modulation at greater than 3σ exclusion. The claim is statistically monumental, physically orphaned, and contradicted by its own target material in other hands.
The model needs a particle, so a modulation with the right phase earned a quarter century of benefit of the doubt: halo passage is the expected signature, and expectation kept the interpretation alive against the exclusion ledger. Without the particle assumption, the signal is an environmental systematic awaiting diagnosis, which is what the replications now indicate.
SCT's position was registered before ANAIS reported: no dark matter particle exists, so no detector passes through a halo wind, and any genuine modulation must be environmental, instrumental, or analytic in origin (P54). The framework therefore predicted exactly the replication outcome, matched sodium-iodide experiments finding nothing, and reads the DAMA persistence as a methodology dispute rather than a physics signal. The gravitational phenomena the halo wind was supposed to represent are carried instead by coherence amplification (P50, P52, P53), which produces no laboratory flux of anything: the cleanest possible prediction for direct detection, permanent universal silence.
The asymmetric stakes bear repeating: ΛCDM survives DAMA's death (other candidates remain) but SCT cannot survive DAMA's vindication, since a genuine halo-wind modulation in any detector is a particle detection. Every null replication, every xenon exclusion, and every annual cycle of ANAIS silence is therefore not just consistent with SCT but actively scoring its registered universal null, in the messenger where the standard model spent four decades expecting a signal.
This is the same no-particle ledger behind the LUX-ZEPLIN nulls, the 3.5 keV deflation, and the positron attribution. There is no need to keep a zombie claim on cosmological life support.
The registered kill is total: a replicated annual modulation in matched target material, with the halo phase, surviving environmental controls, would constitute dark matter detection and falsify SCT outright; the framework holds no fallback against a confirmed laboratory particle. Short of that, SCT's reading is tested by diagnosis: if DAMA's signal is eventually traced to a specific identified systematic, the universal-null ledger closes its oldest open file.