Conservative constraints on the effective theory of dark matter-nucleon interactions from IceCube: the impact of operator interference
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2021-07-21 v3
Abstract
We present a method to derive conservative upper limits on the coupling constants of the effective theory of dark matter-nucleon interactions, taking into account the interference among operators. The method can be applied in any basis, and can be easily particularized to any UV complete model. To illustrate our method, we use the IceCube constraints on an exotic neutrino flux from dark matter annihilations in the Sun to derive conservative upper limits on the dark matter-nucleon coupling constants of the effective theory, as well as to derive conservative upper limits on the dark matter-proton and dark matter-neutron scattering cross-sections.
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@article{arxiv.2011.02929,
title = {Conservative constraints on the effective theory of dark matter-nucleon interactions from IceCube: the impact of operator interference},
author = {Anja Brenner and Alejandro Ibarra and Andreas Rappelt},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.02929},
year = {2021}
}
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24 pages, matches published version