Constraining the interaction strength between dark matter and visible matter: II. scalar, vector and spin-3/2 dark matter

Details Constraining the interaction strength between dark matter and visible matter: II. scalar, vector and spin-3/2 dark matter Constraining the interaction strength between dark matter and visible matter: II. scalar, vector and spin-3/2 dark matter

2011-12-28

arxiv.org/abs/1112.6052v2

Nucl.Phys.B860:115-151,2012

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

31 pages, 28 figures, 3 tables, references added, minor changes

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2012.02.016

We investigate the constraints on the scalar, vector and spin-3/2 dark matter interaction with the standard model particles, from the observations of dark matter relic density, the direct detection experiments of CDMS and XENON, and the indirect detection of the antiproton-to-proton ratio by PAMELA. A model independent way is adopted by constructing general 4-particle operators up to dimension 6 for the effective interaction between dark matter and standard model particles. We find that the constraints from different experiments are complementary with each other. Comparison among these constraints may exclude some effective models of dark matter and limit some parameters of others. The spin-independent direct detection gives strong constraints for some operators, while the indirect detection of antiproton-to-proton data can be more sensitive than direct detection or relic density for light dark matter (whose mass less than 70 GeV) in some cases. The constraints on some operators for spin-3/2 dark matter are shown to be similar to those on their analogous operators for Dirac fermionic dark matter. There are still some operators not sensitive to the current dark matter direct and indirect search experiments.

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