Lattice calculation of composite dark matter form factors



Appelquist, T, Brower, RC, Buchoff, MI, Cheng, M, Cohen, SD, Fleming, GT, Kiskis, J, Lin, MF, Neil, ET, Osborn, JC
et al (show 7 more authors) (2013) Lattice calculation of composite dark matter form factors. PHYSICAL REVIEW D, 88 (1). 014502-.

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Abstract

Composite dark matter candidates, which can arise from new strongly-coupled sectors, are well-motivated and phenomenologically interesting, particularly in the context of asymmetric generation of the relic density. In this work, we employ lattice calculations to study the electromagnetic form factors of electroweak-neutral dark-matter baryons for a three-color, QCD-like theory with Nf = 2 and 6 degenerate fermions in the fundamental representation. We calculate the (connected) charge radius and anomalous magnetic moment, both of which can play a significant role for direct detection of composite dark matter. We find minimal Nf dependence in these quantities. We generate mass-dependent cross-sections for dark matter-nucleon interactions and use them in conjunction with experimental results from XENON100, excluding dark matter candidates of this type with masses below 10 TeV.

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: 8 pages, 5 figures. v2: update to journal version
Uncontrolled Keywords: hep-ph, hep-ph, astro-ph.CO, hep-lat
Depositing User: Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited: 13 Mar 2020 13:30
Last Modified: 18 Jan 2023 23:57
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.88.014502
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URI: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3078923