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WimPyC: an extension module of WimPyDD for the calculation of WIMP capture in celestial bodies
Sunghyun Kang, Stefano Scopel, Gaurav Tomar
We introduce WimPyC, a Python code for the calculation of the capture rate of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) by celestial bodies through nuclear scattering in the opt…
Sensitivity of WIMP bounds on the velocity distribution in the limit of a massless mediator
Koun Choi, Injun Jeong, Sunghyun Kang +2
We discuss the sensitivity of the bounds on the spin-independent (SI) and spin-dependent (SD) WIMP-proton and WIMP-neutron interaction couplings on the WIMP velo…
Low-mass constraints on WIMP effective models of inelastic scattering using the Migdal effect
Sunghyun Kang, Stefano Scopel, Gaurav Tomar
We use the Migdal effect to extend to low masses the bounds on each of the effective couplings of the non-relativistic effective field theory of a WIMP of mass and spin 1/2 t…
Halo-independent bounds on Inelastic Dark Matter
Sunghyun Kang, Arpan Kar, Stefano Scopel
We discuss halo-independent constraints on the Inelastic Dark Matter (IDM) scenario, in which a Weakly Interaction Massive Particle (WIMP) state with mass interacts with…
Halo-independent bounds on the non-relativistic effective theory of WIMP-nucleon scattering from direct detection and neutrino observations
Sunghyun Kang, Arpan Kar, Stefano Scopel
We combine experimental constraints from direct detection searches and from neutrino telescopes looking for WIMP annihilations in the Sun to derive halo-independent bounds on each…
Low-mass extension of direct detection bounds on WIMP-quark and WIMP-gluon effective interactions using the Migdal effect
Gaurav Tomar, Sunghyun Kang, Stefano Scopel
Updating a previous analysis where we used elastic nuclear recoils we study the Migdal effect to extend to low WIMP masses the direct detection bounds to operators up to dimension…
Bracketing the direct detection exclusion plot for a WIMP of spin one half in non-relativistic effective theory
Sunghyun Kang, Injun Jeong, Stefano Scopel
Assuming a standard Maxwellian velocity distribution for the WIMPs in the halo of our Galaxy we use the null results of an exhaustive set of 9 direct detection experiments to calcu…
Complementarity of experiments in probing the non-relativistic effective theory of dark matter-nucleon interactions
Anja Brenner, Gonzalo Herrera, Alejandro Ibarra +3
The non-relativistic effective theory of dark matter-nucleon interactions depends on 28 coupling strengths for dark matter spin up to 1/2. Due to the vast parameter space of the ef…
WimPyDD: an object-oriented Python code for WIMP-nucleus scattering direct detection in virtually any scenario
Gaurav Tomar, Injun Jeong, Sunghyun Kang +1
We introduce WimPyDD, a modular, object-oriented and customisable Python code that accurately predicts the expected WIMP-nucleus scattering rates in WIMP direct-detection experimen…
WimPyDD: an object-oriented Python code for the calculation of WIMP direct detection signals
Injun Jeong, Sunghyun Kang, Stefano Scopel +1
We introduce WimPyDD, a modular, object-oriented and customizable Python code that calculates accurate predictions for the expected rates in Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WI…
The phenomenology of nuclear scattering for a WIMP of arbitrary spin
Paolo Gondolo, Injun Jeong, Sunghyun Kang +2
We provide a first systematic and quantitative discussion of the phenomenology of the non-relativistic effective Hamiltonian describing the nuclear scattering process for a Weakly…
The effective theory of nuclear scattering for a WIMP of arbitrary spin
Paolo Gondolo, Sunghyun Kang, Stefano Scopel +1
We introduce a systematic approach to characterize the most general non-relativistic WIMP-nucleus interaction allowed by Galilean invariance for a WIMP of arbitrary spin in t…
Is a WIMP explanation of the DAMA modulation effect still viable?
Gaurav Tomar, Sunghyun Kang, Stefano Scopel +1
We show that the weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) scenario of proton-philic spin-dependent inelastic dark matter can still provide a viable explanation of the observed DA…
A DAMA/Libra-phase2 analysis in terms of WIMP-quark and WIMP-gluon effective interactions up to dimension seven
Sunghyun Kang, Stefano Scopel, Gaurav Tomar
We analyze the DAMA/Libra-phase2 modulation result using a basis of 16 effective operators describing the WIMP interaction with photons, gluons and quarks up to mass dimension seve…
Probing DAMA/LIBRA in the full parameter space of WIMP effective models of inelastic scattering
Sunghyun Kang, Stefano Scopel, Gaurav Tomar
We discuss the compatibility of the combined annual modulation effect measured by DAMA/LIBRA-phase1 and DAMA/LIBRA-phase2 with an explanation in terms of inelastic scattering event…
Non-standard scaling laws of WIMP-nucleus interactions in WIMP direct detection
Sunghyun Kang, Stefano Scopel, Gaurav Tomar +1
Guided by the non-relativistic effective field theory of interactions between Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) of spin 1/2 and nuclei we study direct detection exclusio…
Effective models of WIMP Direct Detection in DAMA/LIBRA-phase2
Sunghyun Kang, Stefano Scopel, Gaurav Tomar +1
Since the DAMA/LIBRA collaboration released updated results from their search for the annual modulation signal expected from Dark Matter (DM) scattering in their NaI detectors, we…
Proton-philic spin-dependent inelastic Dark Matter (pSIDM) as a viable explanation of DAMA/LIBRA-phase2
Sunghyun Kang, Stefano Scopel, Gaurav Tomar +1
We show that the Weakly Interacting Massive Particle scenario of proton-philic spin-dependent inelastic Dark Matter (pSIDM) can still provide a viable explanation of the observed D…
On the sensitivity of present direct detection experiments to WIMP-quark and WIMP-gluon effective interactions: a systematic assessment and new model-independent approaches
Sunghyun Kang, Stefano Scopel, Gaurav Tomar +1
Assuming for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) a Maxwellian velocity distribution in the Galaxy we provide an assessment of the sensitivity of existing Dark Matter (DM)…
Anapole Dark Matter after DAMA/LIBRA-phase2
Sunghyun Kang, Stefano Scopel, Gaurav Tomar +2
We re-examine the case of anapole dark matter as an explanation for the DAMA annual modulation in light of the DAMA/LIBRA-phase2 results and improved upper limits from other DM sea…
Present and projected sensitivities of Dark Matter direct detection experiments to effective WIMP-nucleus couplings
Sunghyun Kang, Stefano Scopel, Gaurav Tomar +1
Assuming for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) a Maxwellian velocity distribution in the Galaxy we explore in a systematic way the relative sensitivity of an extensive s…
DAMA/LIBRA-phase2 in WIMP effective models
Sunghyun Kang, Stefano Scopel, Gaurav Tomar +1
The DAMA/LIBRA collaboration has recently released updated results from their search for the annual modulation signal expected from Dark Matter (DM) scattering in their NaI detecto…