A Classification of Dark Matter Candidates with Primarily Spin-Dependent Interactions with Matter

Details A Classification of Dark Matter Candidates with Primarily Spin-Dependent Interactions with Matter A Classification of Dark Matter Candidates with Primarily Spin-Dependent Interactions with Matter

2010-03-09

arxiv.org/abs/1003.1912v2

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

46 pages, 13 figures, pdflatex. Results extended to the case of complex vector dark matter. References added

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We perform a model-independent classification of Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP) dark matter candidates that have the property that their scattering off nucleons is dominated by spin-dependent interactions. We study renormalizable theories where the scattering of dark matter is elastic and arises at tree-level. We show that if the WIMP-nucleon cross section is dominated by spin-dependent interactions the natural dark matter candidates are either Majorana fermions or real vector bosons, so that the dark matter particle is its own anti-particle. In such a scenario, scalar dark matter is disfavored. Dirac fermion and complex vector boson dark matter are also disfavored, except for very specific choices of quantum numbers. We further establish that any such theory must contain either new particles close to the weak scale with Standard Model quantum numbers, or alternatively, a $Z'$ gauge boson with mass at or below the TeV scale. In the region of parameter space that is of interest to current direct detection experiments, these particles naturally lie in a mass range that is kinematically accessible to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

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