Friday, December 30, 2011

1112.6052 (Zhao-Huan Yu et al.)

Constraining the interaction strength between dark matter and visible matter: II. scalar, vector and spin-3/2 dark matter    [PDF]

Zhao-Huan Yu, Jia-Ming Zheng, Xiao-Jun Bi, Zhibing Li, Dao-Xin Yao, Hong-Hao Zhang
We investigate the constraints on the scalar, vector and spin-3/2 dark matter interaction with the standard model particles, from the observations of dark matter relic density, the direct detection experiments of CDMS and XENON, and the indirect detection of the antiproton-to-proton ratio by PAMELA. A model independent way is adopted by constructing the most general 4-particle effective interaction operators up to dimension 6 between dark matter and standard model particles. We find that the constraints from different experiments are complementary with each other, and the comparision among these constraints may exclude some effective models of dark matter and limit the parameters of some others. The spin-independent direct detection gives very strong constraints for some operators, while the indirect detection of antiproton-to-proton data can be more sensitive than direct detection or relic density for light dark matter (whose mass less than 70 GeV) in some cases. The constraints on some operators for spin-3/2 dark matter are shown to be similar to those on their analogous operators for Dirac fermionic dark matter. There are still some operators not sensitive to the current dark matter direct and indirect search experiments.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1112.6052

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