Nuclear spin structure in dark matter search: The Finite momentum transfer limit

Aug, 2006
39 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Part.Nucl. 37 (2006) S106-S128
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Abstract:
Spin-dependent elastic scattering of weakly interacting massive dark matter particles (WIMP) off nuclei is reviewed. All available, within different nuclear models, structure functions S(q) for finite momentum transfer (q>0) are presented. These functions describe the recoil energy dependence of the differential event rate due to the spin-dependent WIMP-nucleon interactions. This paper, together with the previous paper ``Nuclear spin structure in dark matter search: The zero momentum transfer limit'', completes our review of the nuclear spin structure calculations involved in the problem of direct dark matter search.
  • 12.60.Jv
  • 14.80.Ly
  • 95.35.+d
  • weak-interacting massive particle
  • supersymmetry
  • neutralino
  • nuclear matrix element
  • dark matter: search for
  • WIMP nucleus: elastic scattering
  • spin dependence