Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2010-08-09
JCAP 1011:042,2010
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
35 pages, 3 figures, Appendix C.3 revised, acknowledgments and references added
Scientific paper
10.1088/1475-7516/2010/11/042
Dark matter direct detection searches for signals coming from dark matter scattering against nuclei at a very low recoil energy scale ~ 10 keV. In this paper, a simple non-relativistic effective theory is constructed to describe interactions between dark matter and nuclei without referring to any underlying high energy models. It contains the minimal set of operators that will be tested by direct detection. The effective theory approach highlights the set of distinguishable recoil spectra that could arise from different theoretical models. If dark matter is discovered in the near future in direct detection experiments, a measurement of the shape of the recoil spectrum will provide valuable information on the underlying dynamics. We bound the coefficients of the operators in our non-relativistic effective theory by the null results of current dark matter direct detection experiments. We also discuss the mapping between the non-relativistic effective theory and field theory models or operators, including aspects of the matching of quark and gluon operators to nuclear form factors.
Fan Jianhua
Reece Matthew
Wang Lian-Tao
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