PoS - Proceedings of Science
Volume 317 - The 9th International workshop on Chiral Dynamics (CD2018) - Session: Few-Body Dynamics
Dark matter-nucleus scattering in chiral effective field theory
M. Hoferichter*, P. Klos, J.F. Menendez and A. Schwenk
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Published on: February 28, 2020
Abstract
Chiral effective field theory allows one to calculate the response of few-nucleon systems to external currents, both for currents that can be probed in the Standard Model and ones that only exist in Standard-Model extensions. In combination with state-of-the-art many-body methods, the constraints from chiral symmetry can then be implemented in nuclear structure factors that describe the response of atomic nuclei in direct-detection searches for dark matter. We review the present status of this approach, including the role of coherently enhanced two-body currents, the discrimination of dark matter candidates based on the nuclear response functions, and limits on Higgs-portal dark matter.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.317.0095
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