Nuclear physics of dark matter detection
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We describe the elastic scattering of weakly interacting dark matter particles from nuclei, with laboratory detection in mind. We focus on the lightest neutralino (a neutral fermion predicted by supersymmetry) as a likely candidate and discuss the physics needed to calculate its elastic scattering cross section and interpret experimental results. Particular emphasis is placed on a proper description of the structure of the proposed detector nuclei. We include a brief discussion of expected count rates in some detectors.- review
- dark matter
- sparticle: neutral particle
- supersymmetry
- scattering: sparticle nucleus
- sparticle nucleus: scattering
- Feynman graph
- channel cross section
- spin dependence
- dependence: spin
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