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Title: Renormalization group effects in dark matter interactions

Journal Article · · Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
ORCiD logo [1];  [2];  [3];  [2]
  1. Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg (Germany)
  2. Univ. of Cincinnati, OH (United States). Dept. of Physics
  3. Univ. of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA (United States). Dept. of Physics

We present a renormalization-group (RG) analysis of dark matter interactions with the standard model, where dark matter is allowed to be a component of an electroweak multiplet, and has a mass at or below the electroweak scale. We consider, in addition to the gauge interactions, the complete set of effective operators for dark matter interactions with the standard model above the weak scale, up to and including mass dimension six. We calculate the RG evolution of these operators from the high scale Λ down to the weak scale, and perform the matching to the tower of effective theories below the weak scale. We also summarize the RG evolution below the weak scale and the matching to the nonrelativistic nuclear interactions. We present several numerical examples and show that in certain cases the dark matter — nucleus scattering rate can change by orders of magnitude when the electroweak running is included.

Research Organization:
Univ. of Cincinnati, OH (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0011784
OSTI ID:
1802260
Journal Information:
Journal of High Energy Physics (Online), Vol. 2020, Issue 3; ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher:
Springer BerlinCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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