Global constraints on effective dark matter interactions: relic density, direct detection, indirect detection, and collider

An effective interaction approach is used to describe the interactions between the spin 0 or spin 1/2 dark matter particle and the degrees of freedom of the standard model. This approach is applicable to those models in which the dark matter particles do not experience the standard-model interaction...

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Published in:Journal of cosmology and astroparticle physics 2012-05, Vol.2012 (5), p.1-30
Main Authors: Cheung, Kingman, Tseng, Po-Yan, Tsai, Yue-Lin S, Yuan, Tzu-Chiang
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
ANNIHILATION
ANTIPROTONS
ASTROPHYSICS
ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY
COSMIC PHOTONS
COSMOLOGY
CROSS SECTIONS
Dark matter
DEGREES OF FREEDOM
DENSITY
FERMILAB TEVATRON
Fluxes
GAMMA RADIATION
Large Hadron Collider
NONLUMINOUS MATTER
Operators
Particle spin
SCATTERING
SPIN
STANDARD MODEL
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Summary:An effective interaction approach is used to describe the interactions between the spin 0 or spin 1/2 dark matter particle and the degrees of freedom of the standard model. This approach is applicable to those models in which the dark matter particles do not experience the standard-model interactions, e.g., hidden-sector models. We explore the effects of these effective interaction operators on (i) dark matter relic density, (ii) spin-independent and spin-dependent dark matter-nucleon scattering cross sections, (iii) cosmic antiproton and gamma ray fluxes from the galactic halo due to dark matter annihilation, and (iv) monojet and monophoton production plus missing energy at the Tevatron and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). We combine the experimental data of relic density from WMAP7, spin-independent cross section from XENON100, spin-dependent cross section from XENON10, ZEPLIN-III, and SIMPLE, cosmic antiproton flux from PAMELA, cosmic gamma-ray flux from Fermi-LAT, and the monojet and monophoton data from the Tevatron and the LHC, to put the most comprehensive limits on each effective operator.
ISSN:1475-7516
1475-7516
DOI:10.1088/1475-7516/2012/05/001