Dark matter effective field theory scattering in direct detection experiments

Schneck, K.; Cabrera, B.; Cerdeño, David G.; Mandic, V.; Rogers, H. E.; Agnese, R.; Anderson, A. J.; Asai, M.; Balakishiyeva, D.; Barker, D.; Thakur, R. Basu; Bauer, D. A.; Billard, J.; Borgland, A. W.; Brandt, D.; Brink, P. L.; Bunker, R.; Caldwell, D. O.; Calkins, R.; Chagani, H.; Chen, Y.; Cooley, J.; Cornell, B.; Crewdson, C. H.; Cushman, P.; Daal, M.; Stefano, P. C. F. Di; Doughty, T.; Esteban, Luis; Fallows, S.; Figueroa‐Feliciano, E.; Godfrey, G.; Golwala, S. R.; Hall, J.; Harris, H. R.; Höfer, T.; Holmgren, D.; Hsu, L.; Huber, M. E.; Jardin, D.; Jastram, A.; Kamaev, O.; Kara, Burhan; Kelsey, M.; Kennedy, A.; Leder, A.; Loer, B.; Asamar, E. Lopez; Lukens, P.; Mahapatra, R.; McCarthy, K. A.; Mirabolfathi, N.; Moffatt, R. A.; Mendoza, J. D. Morales; Oser, S. M.; Page, K.; Page, W. A.; Partridge, R.; Pepin, M.; Phipps, A.; Prasad, K.; Pyle, M.; Qiu, H.; Rau, W.; Redl, P.; Reisetter, A.; Ricci, Y.; Roberts, A.; Saab, T.; Sadoulet, B.; Sander, J.; Schnee, R. W.; Scorza, S.; Serfass, B.; Shank, B.; Speller, D.; Toback, D.; Upadhyayula, S.; Villano, A. N.; Welliver, B.; Wilson, J. S.; Wright, D. H.; Yang, X.; Yellin, S.; Yen, J. J.; Young, B. A.; Zhang, J.

doi:10.1103/physrevd.91.092004

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“…Initially formulated in [7][8][9]24,48], it has later been developed in [10][11][12]21,47,[49][50][51][52][53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62][63][64]. In this context, the most general Hamiltonian density for nonrelativistic dark matter-nucleus interactions iŝ…”

Section: Methodology a Dark Matter-nucleon And Nucleus Interactionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Ab initio nuclear response functions for dark matter searches

Gazda

Forssén

2017

Phys. Rev. D

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We study the process of dark matter particles scattering off 3;4 He with nuclear wave functions computed using an ab initio many-body framework. We employ realistic nuclear interactions derived from chiral effective field theory at next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) and develop an ab initio scheme to compute a general set of different nuclear response functions. In particular, we then perform an accompanying uncertainty quantification on these quantities and study error propagation to physical observables. We find a rich structure of allowed nuclear responses with significant uncertainties for certain spin-dependent interactions. The approach and results that are presented here establish a new framework for nuclear structure calculations and uncertainty quantification in the context of direct and (certain) indirect searches for dark matter.

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Section: Methodology a Dark Matter-nucleon And Nucleus Interactionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Ab initio nuclear response functions for dark matter searches

Gazda

Forssén

2017

Phys. Rev. D

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“…[86], and limit the dimension of the diagonalization to 5 · 10 8 . We have also preformed calculations of the stable isotopes 36,38 Ar which are of the same quality as those for 40 Ar. Nonetheless we have not included them in our study, because the natural abundance of these isotopes is very minor with less than 0.3%.…”

Section: Nuclear Structure Calculationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…On the one hand, a non-relativistic effective field theory (NREFT) [33][34][35] based on the lowest-order operators that can describe the coupling of a WIMP to a nucleon. The NREFT approach proposes a set of one-body operators, considered in recent experimental analyses [36][37][38][39]. On the other hand, an organization based on chiral effective field theory (ChEFT) [40][41][42], a low-energy effective theory of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) that preserves the QCD symmetries, in particular capturing the important role played by pions at low energies.…”

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Nuclear structure factors for general spin-independent WIMP-nucleus scattering

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We present nuclear structure factors that describe the generalized spin-independent coupling of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) to nuclei. Our results are based on state-of-the-art nuclear structure calculations using the large-scale nuclear shell model. Starting from quark-and gluon-level operators, we consider all possible coherently enhanced couplings of spin-1/2 and spin-0 WIMPs to one and two nucleons up to third order in chiral effective field theory. This includes a comprehensive discussion of the structure factors corresponding to the leading two-nucleon currents covering, for the first time, the contribution of spin-2 operators. We provide results for the most relevant nuclear targets considered in present and planned dark matter direct detection experiments: fluorine, silicon, argon, and germanium, complementing our previous work on xenon. All results are also publicly available in a Python

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“…We stress that in the literature only the bounds from a few experiments (typically XENON1T and PICO-60) are discussed, and only for a few of the effective models of Eqs. (3,4,5) [50,41,42,48,57,37,38,58]. So the second main goal of the present paper is to focus on a systematic approach, including a number of experiments and of effective couplings that both exceed for completeness previous analyses.…”

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On the sensitivity of present direct detection experiments to WIMP–quark and WIMP–gluon effective interactions: A systematic assessment and new model–independent approaches

Kang

Scopel

Tomar

et al. 2020

Astroparticle Physics

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Assuming for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) a Maxwellian velocity distribution in the Galaxy we provide an assessment of the sensitivity of existing Dark Matter (DM) direct detection (DD) experiments to operators up to dimension 7 of the relativistic effective field theory describing dark matter interactions with quarks and gluons . In particular we focus on a systematic approach, including an extensive set of experiments and large number of couplings, both exceeding for completeness similar analyses in the literature. The relativistic effective theory requires to fix one coupling for each quark flavor, so in principle for each different combination the bounds should be recalculated starting from direct detection experimental data. To address this problem we propose an approximate model-independent procedure that allows to directly calculate the bounds for any combination of couplings in terms of model-independent limits on the Wilson coefficients of the non-relativistic theory expressed in terms of the WIMP mass and of the neutron-to-proton coupling ratio c n /c p . We test the result of the approximate procedure against that of a full calculation, and discuss its possible pitfalls and limitations. We also provide a simple interpolating interface in Python that allows to apply our method quantitatively.

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Dark matter effective field theory scattering in direct detection experiments

Cited by 69 publications

References 31 publications

Ab initio nuclear response functions for dark matter searches

Ab initio nuclear response functions for dark matter searches

Nuclear structure factors for general spin-independent WIMP-nucleus scattering

On the sensitivity of present direct detection experiments to WIMP–quark and WIMP–gluon effective interactions: A systematic assessment and new model–independent approaches

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