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Dark Matter Effective Theory

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2022-02-02 v2

Abstract

Les Houches 2021 lectures on dark matter effective field theory (short course). The aim of these two lectures is to calculate the DM-nucleus cross section for a simple example, and then generalize to the treatment of general effective interactions of spin-1/2 DM. Relativistic local operators, the heavy-DM effective theory, the chiral effective Lagrangian, and nuclear effective operators are briefly discussed.

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@article{arxiv.2108.11931,
  title  = {Dark Matter Effective Theory},
  author = {Joachim Brod},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.11931},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

23 pages, 4 figures. Submitted to SciPost Physics Lecture Notes, Les Houches Summer School Series. Improved discussion, corrected typographical errors

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