\texttt{dmscatter}: a fast program for WIMP-nucleus scattering

DOI10.1016/J.CPC.2022.108597MaRDI QIDQ6100784zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Oliver C. Gorton, C. Johnson, Changfeng Jiao, Jonathan Nikoleyczik

Publication date 22 June 2023

Published in Computer Physics Communications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.09187

zbMATH Keywords

dark matternuclear physicsparticle physicsFortran

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nuclear physics (81V35) Quantum state spaces, operational and probabilistic concepts (81P16) Collisions in celestial mechanics, regularization (70F16) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-02) Computational methods for problems pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-08) The dynamics of infinite particle systems (70F45) Effective quantum field theories (81T12) Dark matter and dark energy (83C56)

Abstract: Recent work, using an effective field theory framework, has shown the number of possible couplings between nucleons and the dark-matter-candidate Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) is larger than previously thought. Inspired by an existing Mathematica script that computes the target response, we have developed a fast, modern Fortran code, including optional OpenMP parallelization, along with a user-friendly Python wrapper, to swiftly and efficiently explore many scenarios, with output aligned with practices of current dark matter searches. A library of most of the important target nuclides is included; users may also import their own nuclear structure data, in the form of reduced one-body density matrices. The main output is the differential event rate as a function of recoil energy, needed for modeling detector response rates, but intermediate results such as nuclear form factors can be readily accessed.

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