Dark Matter Effective Theory
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2012-04-26 v2 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
We organize the effective (self)interaction terms for complex scalar dark matter candidates which are either an isosinglet, isodoublet or an isotriplet with respect to the weak interactions. The classification has been performed ordering the operators in inverse powers of the dark matter cutoff scale. We assume Lorentz invariance, color and charge neutrality. We also introduce potentially interesting dark matter induced flavor-changing operators. Our general framework allows for model independent investigations of dark matter properties.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1102.3116,
title = {Dark Matter Effective Theory},
author = {Eugenio Del Nobile and Francesco Sannino},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1102.3116},
year = {2012}
}
Comments
Few typos corrected; Phenomenological section added with an application of the effective operators to dark matter direct detection searches