2010

Non-relativistic effective theory of dark matter direct detection

Fan, JiJi, Reece, Matthew, Wang, Lian-Tao

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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.

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