Heavy WIMP Effective Theory

Formalism and Applications for Scattering on Nucleon Targets

Mikhail P. Solon (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

XV, 177 Seiten

2018 | 1. Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-79750-2 (ISBN)

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This book is about dark matter's particle nature and the implications of a new symmetry that appears when a hypothetical dark matter particle is heavy compared to known elementary particles. Dark matter exists and composes about 85% of the matter in the universe, but it cannot be explained in terms of the known elementary particles. Discovering dark matter's particle nature is one of the most pressing open problems in particle physics. This thesis derives the implications of a new symmetry that appears when the hypothetical dark matter particle is heavy compared to the known elementary particles, a situation which is well motivated by the null results of searches at the LHC and elsewhere. The new symmetry predicts a universal interaction between dark matter and ordinary matter, which in turn may be used to determine the event rate and detectable energy in dark matter direct detection experiments. The computation of heavy wino and higgsino dark matter presented in this work has become a benchmark for the field of direct detection. This thesis has also spawned a new field of investigation in dark matter indirect detection, determining heavy WIMP annihilation rates using effective field theory methods. It describes a new formalism for implementing Lorentz invariance constraints in nonrelativistic theories, with a surprising result at 1/M^4 order that contradicts the prevailing ansatz in the past 20 years of heavy quark literature. The author has also derived new perturbative QCDresults to provide the definitive analysis of key Standard Model observables such as heavy quark scalar matrix elements of the nucleon. This is an influential thesis, with impacts in dark matter phenomenology, field theory formalism and precision hadronic physics.

Heavy WIMP Effective Theory.- Heavy-particle Spacetime Symmetries and Building Blocks.- Effective Theory at the Weak-scale.- Weak-scale Matching.- QCD Analysis and Hadronic Matrix Elements.- Heavy WIMP-Nucleon Scattering Cross Sections.- Conclusions.- Appendix A: Solution to the Invariance Equation.- Appendix B: Integrals and Inputs for Weak Scale Matching.- Appendix C: Inputs for Analysis of QCD Effects and Hadronic Matrix Elements.

Erscheinungsdatum	23.06.2018
Reihe/Serie	Springer Theses
Zusatzinfo	XV, 177 p. 26 illus., 12 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	308 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Atom- / Kern- / Molekularphysik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Hochenergiephysik / Teilchenphysik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Quantenphysik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Relativitätstheorie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Theoretische Physik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Thermodynamik
Schlagworte	Dark Matter Direct Detection • Dark Matter Indirect Detection • Dark Matter Particles • Dark Matter Phenomenology • Heavy WIMP Annihilation Rates • Heavy WIMP Effective Theory • Higgsino Dark Matter • Wino Dark Matter
ISBN-10	3-319-79750-6 / 3319797506
ISBN-13	978-3-319-79750-2 / 9783319797502
Zustand	Neuware