Uncertainties on the EFT coupling limits for direct dark matter detection experiments stemming from uncertainties of target properties
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| author | Heimsoth, Daniel J. Lem, Brandon Suliga, Anna M. Johnson, Calvin W. Balantekin, A. Baha Coppersmith, Susan N. |
| author_facet | Heimsoth, Daniel J. Lem, Brandon Suliga, Anna M. Johnson, Calvin W. Balantekin, A. Baha Coppersmith, Susan N. |
| contents | Direct detection experiments are still one of the most promising ways to unravel the nature of dark matter. To fully understand how well these experiments constrain the dark matter interactions with the Standard Model particles, all the uncertainties affecting the calculations must be known. It is especially critical now because direct detection experiments recently moved from placing limits only on the two elementary spin independent and spin dependent operators to the complete set of possible operators coupling dark matter and nuclei in nonrelativistic theory. In our work, we estimate the effect of nuclear configuration-interaction uncertainties on the exclusion bounds for one of the existing xenon-based experiments for all fifteen operators. We find that for operator number 13 the $\pm 1σ$ uncertainty on the coupling between the dark matter and nucleon can reach more than 50% for dark matter masses between 10 and 1000 GeV. In addition, we discuss how quantum computers can help to reduce this uncertainty and how the uncertainties are affected for couplings obtained for the nonrelativistic reductions of the relativistic interactions. |
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| spellingShingle | Uncertainties on the EFT coupling limits for direct dark matter detection experiments stemming from uncertainties of target properties Heimsoth, Daniel J. Lem, Brandon Suliga, Anna M. Johnson, Calvin W. Balantekin, A. Baha Coppersmith, Susan N. High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Experiment Nuclear Theory Direct detection experiments are still one of the most promising ways to unravel the nature of dark matter. To fully understand how well these experiments constrain the dark matter interactions with the Standard Model particles, all the uncertainties affecting the calculations must be known. It is especially critical now because direct detection experiments recently moved from placing limits only on the two elementary spin independent and spin dependent operators to the complete set of possible operators coupling dark matter and nuclei in nonrelativistic theory. In our work, we estimate the effect of nuclear configuration-interaction uncertainties on the exclusion bounds for one of the existing xenon-based experiments for all fifteen operators. We find that for operator number 13 the $\pm 1σ$ uncertainty on the coupling between the dark matter and nucleon can reach more than 50% for dark matter masses between 10 and 1000 GeV. In addition, we discuss how quantum computers can help to reduce this uncertainty and how the uncertainties are affected for couplings obtained for the nonrelativistic reductions of the relativistic interactions. |
| title | Uncertainties on the EFT coupling limits for direct dark matter detection experiments stemming from uncertainties of target properties |
| topic | High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Experiment Nuclear Theory |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.08991 |