Ab initio nuclear response functions for dark matter searches
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2017

We study the process of dark matter particles scattering off He-3,He-4 with nuclear wave functions computed using an ab initio many-body framework. We employ realistic nuclear interactions derived from chiral effective field theory at next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) and develop an ab initio scheme to compute a general set of different nuclear response functions. In particular, we then perform an accompanying uncertainty quantification on these quantities and study error propagation to physical observables. We find a rich structure of allowed nuclear responses with significant uncertainties for certain spin-dependent interactions. The approach and results that are presented here establish a new framework for nuclear structure calculations and uncertainty quantification in the context of direct and (certain) indirect searches for dark matter.

Författare

Daniel Gazda

Chalmers, Fysik, Subatomär fysik och plasmafysik

Riccardo Catena

Chalmers, Fysik, Subatomär fysik och plasmafysik

Christian Forssen

Chalmers, Fysik, Subatomär fysik och plasmafysik

Physical Review D

2470-0010 (ISSN) 2470-0029 (eISSN)

Vol. 95 10 103011

Ämneskategorier

Subatomär fysik

Teoretisk kemi

DOI

10.1103/PhysRevD.95.103011

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