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Analysis strategies for general spin-independent WIMP-nucleus scattering

Martin Hoferichter1,*, Philipp Klos2,3,†, Javier Menéndez4,‡, and Achim Schwenk2,3,5,§

  • 1Institute for Nuclear Theory, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195-1550, USA
  • 2Institut für Kernphysik, Technische Universität Darmstadt, 64289 Darmstadt, Germany
  • 3ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, 64291 Darmstadt, Germany
  • 4Department of Physics, The University of Tokyo, 113-0033 Tokyo, Japan
  • 5Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Saupfercheckweg 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany

  • *mhofer@uw.edu
  • †pklos@theorie.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de
  • ‡menendez@nt.phys.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp
  • §schwenk@physik.tu-darmstadt.de
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Phys. Rev. D 94, 063505 – Published 8 September, 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.94.063505

Abstract

We propose a formalism for the analysis of direct-detection dark-matter searches that covers all coherent responses for scalar and vector interactions and incorporates QCD constraints imposed by chiral symmetry, including all one- and two-body WIMP-nucleon interactions up to third order in chiral effective field theory. One of the free parameters in the WIMP-nucleus cross section corresponds to standard spin-independent searches, but in general different combinations of new-physics couplings are probed. We identify the interference with the isovector counterpart of the standard spin-independent response and two-body currents as the dominant corrections to the leading spin-independent structure factor, and discuss the general consequences for the interpretation of direct-detection experiments, including minimal extensions of the standard spin-independent analysis. Fits for all structure factors required for the scattering off xenon targets are provided based on state-of-the-art nuclear shell-model calculations.

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