scholarly journals Effective field theory search for high-energy nuclear recoils using the XENON100 dark matter detector

2017 ◽  
Vol 96 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Aprile ◽  
J. Aalbers ◽  
F. Agostini ◽  
M. Alfonsi ◽  
F. D. Amaro ◽  
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Author(s):  
Subhaditya Bhattacharya ◽  
José Wudka

Standard Model (SM) of particle physics has achieved enormous success in describing the interactions among the known fundamental constituents of nature, yet it fails to describe phenomena for which there is very strong experimental evidence, such as the existence of dark matter, and which point to the existence of new physics not included in that model; beyond its existence, experimental data, however, have not provided clear indications as to the nature of that new physics. The effective field theory (EFT) approach, the subject of this review, is designed for this type of situations; it provides a consistent and unbiased framework within which to study new physics effects whose existence is expected but whose detailed nature is known very imperfectly. We will provide a description of this approach together with a discussion of some of its basic theoretical aspects. We then consider applications to high-energy phenomenology and conclude with a discussion of the application of EFT techniques to the study of dark matter physics and its possible interactions with the SM. In several of the applications we also briefly discuss specific models that are ultraviolet complete and may realize the effects described by the EFT.


2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (02) ◽  
pp. 2050028
Author(s):  
Ayşe Elçi̇boğa Kuday ◽  
Ferhat Özok ◽  
Erdinç Ulaş Saka

We analyze dark matter in most general form of effective field theory approach. To examine the interactions between the weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) and the Standard Model (SM) particles, we use the six-dimensional EFT mediated by new physics scale [Formula: see text] at tree level. After implementing a new effective field theory model in FeynRules [FeynRules 2.0 A complete toolbox for tree-level phenomenology, Comput. Phys. Comm. 185(8) (2014) 2250–2300] We investigate the theory and constrain the theory by using relic density generated by MadDM [MadDM v.3.0: A Comprehensive tool for dark matter studies, Phys. Dark Univ. 24 (2019) 100249] tool of MadGraph5_aMC@NLO [The automated computation of tree-level and next-to-leading order differential cross-sections, and their matching to parton shower simulations, J. High Energy Phys. 79 (2014) 2014].


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabiola Fortuna ◽  
Pablo Roig ◽  
José Wudka

Abstract We analyze interactions between dark matter and standard model particles with spin one mediators in an effective field theory framework. In this paper, we are considering dark particles masses in the range from a few MeV to the mass of the Z boson. We use bounds from different experiments: Z invisible decay width, relic density, direct detection experiments, and indirect detection limits from the search of gamma-ray emissions and positron fluxes. We obtain solutions corresponding to operators with antisymmetric tensor mediators that fulfill all those requirements within our approach.


2019 ◽  
Vol 99 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Belyaev ◽  
Enrico Bertuzzo ◽  
Cristian Caniu Barros ◽  
Oscar Eboli ◽  
Giovanni Grilli di Cortona ◽  
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2016 ◽  
Vol 93 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
Asher Berlin ◽  
Denis S. Robertson ◽  
Mikhail P. Solon ◽  
Kathryn M. Zurek

2013 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 153-154
Author(s):  
CHUAN-TSUNG CHAN ◽  
SHOICH KAWAMOTO ◽  
DAN TOMINO

It is known that infinitely many linear relations among string scattering amplitudes appear in high energy limit. These linear relations would imply a symmetry structure that is not manifest before taking the high energy limit. Motivated by this observation, we study an effective field theory of massive spin-2 and spin-1 particles, and try to understand what kind of structure reproduces the linear relations among the amplitudes of bosonic open string.


2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (05) ◽  
pp. 1641007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manuel Pavón Valderrama

Effective field theories are the most general tool for the description of low energy phenomena. They are universal and systematic: they can be formulated for any low energy systems we can think of and offer a clear guide on how to calculate predictions with reliable error estimates, a feature that is called power counting. These properties can be easily understood in Wilsonian renormalization, in which effective field theories are the low energy renormalization group evolution of a more fundamental — perhaps unknown or unsolvable — high energy theory. In nuclear physics they provide the possibility of a theoretically sound derivation of nuclear forces without having to solve quantum chromodynamics explicitly. However there is the problem of how to organize calculations within nuclear effective field theory: the traditional knowledge about power counting is perturbative but nuclear physics is not. Yet power counting can be derived in Wilsonian renormalization and there is already a fairly good understanding of how to apply these ideas to non-perturbative phenomena and in particular to nuclear physics. Here we review a few of these ideas, explain power counting in two-nucleon scattering and reactions with external probes and hint at how to extend the present analysis beyond the two-body problem.


2015 ◽  
Vol 91 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Schneck ◽  
B. Cabrera ◽  
D. G. Cerdeño ◽  
V. Mandic ◽  
H. E. Rogers ◽  
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