Quantum Monte Carlo calculations of dark matter scattering off light nuclei

Andreoli, Lorenzo; Cirigliano, Vincenzo; Gandolfi, Stefano; Pederiva, Francesco

doi:10.1103/PhysRevC.99.025501

Title: Quantum Monte Carlo calculations of dark matter scattering off light nuclei

Journal Article · Fri Feb 08 00:00:00 EST 2019 · Physical Review C

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.99.025501· OSTI ID:1511618

Andreoli, Lorenzo ^[1];

^[2];

^[2]; Pederiva, Francesco ^[3]

Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); Univ. of Trento, Trento (Italy). Dipt. di Fisica; Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Trento Inst. for Fundamental Physics and Applications (INFN-TIFPA), Trento (Italy)
Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Univ. of Trento, Trento (Italy). Dipt. di Fisica; Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Trento Inst. for Fundamental Physics and Applications (INFN-TIFPA), Trento (Italy)

We compute the matrix elements for elastic scattering of dark matter (DM) particles off light nuclei (²H, ³H, ³He, ⁴He, and ⁶Li ) using quantum Monte Carlo methods. We focus on scalar-mediated DM-nucleus interactions and use scalar currents obtained to next-to-leading order in chiral effective theory. The nuclear ground states are obtained from a phenomenological nuclear Hamiltonian that includes the Argonne v₁₈ two-body interaction and the three-body Urbana IX interaction. Within this approach, we study the impact of one- and two-body currents and discuss the size of nuclear uncertainties, including for the first time two-body effects in A = 4 and A = 6 systems. Lastly, our results provide the nuclear structure input needed to assess the sensitivity of future experimental searches of (light) dark matter using light nuclei, such as ³Heand ⁴He .

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Research Organization:: Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program

Grant/Contract Number:: 89233218CNA000001; AC52-06NA25396; AC02-05CH11231

OSTI ID:: 1511618

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1493970

Report Number(s):: LA-UR-18-30452; PRVCAN

Journal Information:: Physical Review C, Vol. 99, Issue 2; ISSN 2469-9985

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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