Scattering of dark particles with light mediators

Soper, Davison E.; Spannowsky, Michael; Wallace, Chris J.; Tait, Tim M.  P.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.90.115005

Title: Scattering of dark particles with light mediators

Journal Article · Wed Dec 03 00:00:00 EST 2014 · Physical Review. D, Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.90.115005· OSTI ID:1601467

Soper, Davison E. ^[1]; Spannowsky, Michael ^[2]; Wallace, Chris J. ^[2]; Tait, Tim M. P. ^[3]

Univ. of Oregon, Eugene, OR (United States). Inst. of Theoretical Science
Durham Univ. (United Kingdom). Inst. for Particle Physics Phenomenology
Univ. of California, Irvine, CA (United States)

We present a treatment of the high energy scattering of dark Dirac fermions from nuclei, mediated by the exchange of a light vector boson. The dark fermions are produced by proton-nucleus interactions in a fixed target and, after traversing shielding that screens out strongly interacting products, appear similarly to neutrino neutral current scattering in a detector. Using the Fermilab experiment E613 as an example, we place limits on a secluded dark matter scenario. Visible scattering in the detector includes both the familiar regime of large momentum transfer to the nucleus (Q²) described by deeply inelastic scattering, as well as small Q² kinematics described by the exchanged vector mediator fluctuating into a quark-antiquark pair whose interaction with the nucleus is described by a saturation model. Here, we find that the improved description of the low Q² scattering leads to important corrections, resulting in more robust constraints in a regime where a description entirely in terms of deeply inelastic scattering cannot be trusted.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of Oregon, Eugene, OR (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0011640

OSTI ID:: 1601467

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1180872

Journal Information:: Physical Review. D, Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, Vol. 90, Issue 11; ISSN 1550-7998

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

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