Inelastic dark matter nucleus scattering
Abstract
Direct detection experiments aim at the detection of dark matter in the form of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) by searching for signals from elastic dark matter nucleus scattering. Additionally, inelastic scattering in which the nucleus is excited is expected from nuclear physics and provides an additional detectable signal. In the context of a low-energy effective field theory we investigate the experimental reach to these inelastic transitions for xenon-based detectors employing a dual-phase time projection chamber. We find that once a dark matter signal is established, inelastic transitions enhance the discovery reach and we show that they allow a better determination of the underlying particle physics.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1906.10466,
title = {Inelastic dark matter nucleus scattering},
author = {G. Arcadi and C. Döring and C. Hasterok and S. Vogl},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.10466},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
28 pages, 8 figures, version accepted for publication in JCAP