Chiral power counting of one- and two-body currents in direct detection of dark matter

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2015.05.041MaRDI QIDQ307523zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Martin Hoferichter, Philipp Klos, Achim Schwenk

Publication date 1 September 2016

Published in Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.04811

zbMATH Keywords

chiral Lagrangiansdark matterWIMPs

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Other elementary particle theory in quantum theory (81V25)

Abstract: We present a common chiral power-counting scheme for vector, axial-vector, scalar, and pseudoscalar WIMP-nucleon interactions, and derive all one- and two-body currents up to third order in the chiral expansion. Matching our amplitudes to non-relativistic effective field theory, we find that chiral symmetry predicts a hierarchy amongst the non-relativistic operators. Moreover, we identify interaction channels where two-body currents that so far have not been accounted for become relevant.

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