A combined analysis of PandaX, LUX, and XENON1T experiments within the framework of dark matter effective theory

Understand

Weakly interacting massive particles are a widely well-probed dark matter candidate by the dark matter direct detection experiments.

• Theoretically, there are a large number of ultraviolet completed models that consist of a weakly interacting massive particle dark matter.
• The variety of models makes the comparison with the direct detection data complicated and often non-trivial.
• To overcome this, in the non-relativistic limit, the effective theory was developed in the literature which works very well to significantly reduce the complexity of dark matter-nucleon interactions and to better study the nuclear response functions.