Phenomenology of dark matter-nucleon effective interactions
arXiv:1512.06254 · doi:10.1088/1742-6596/718/4/042012
Abstract
I compare the non-relativistic effective theory of one-body dark matter-nucleon interactions to current dark matter direct detection experiments and neutrino telescope observations, presenting exclusion limits on the coupling constants of the theory. In the analysis of direct detection experiments, I focus on the interference of different dark matter-nucleon interaction operators and on predictions observable at directional detectors. Interpreting neutrino telescope observations, I use new nuclear response functions recently derived through nuclear structure calculations and show that hydrogen is not the most important element in the exclusion limit calculation for the majority of the spin-dependent dark matter-nucleon interaction operators
Contribution to the TAUP 2015 conference proceedings. 5 pages, 2 figures
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