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Heavy WIMP Effective Theory

Formalism and Applications for Scattering on Nucleon Targets

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Authors:
  1. Mikhail P. Solon

    1. University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, USA

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  • Awarded the Bloomenthal Fellowship, given to the best graduate student in theoretical physics with advanced residency status, University of Chicago (2013-2014)
  • Derives the implications of a new symmetry that appears when the hypothetical dark matter particle is heavy compared to the known elementary particles
  • Led to a new field of investigation in dark matter indirect detection
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Heavy WIMP Effective Theory

    • Mikhail P. Solon
    Pages 1-12

  3. Heavy-Particle Spacetime Symmetries and Building Blocks

    • Mikhail P. Solon
    Pages 13-47

  4. Effective Theory at the Weak-Scale

    • Mikhail P. Solon
    Pages 49-76

  5. Weak-Scale Matching

    • Mikhail P. Solon
    Pages 77-118

  6. QCD Analysis and Hadronic Matrix Elements

    • Mikhail P. Solon
    Pages 119-133

  7. Heavy WIMP-Nucleon Scattering Cross Sections

    • Mikhail P. Solon
    Pages 135-146

  8. Conclusions

    • Mikhail P. Solon
    Pages 147-149

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 151-177
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About this book

This book is about dark matter’s particle nature and the implications of a new symmetry that appears when a hypothetical dark matter particle is heavy compared to known elementary particles. Dark matter exists and composes about 85% of the matter in the universe, but it cannot be explained in terms of the known elementary particles. Discovering dark matter's particle nature is one of the most pressing open problems in particle physics. This thesis derives the implications of a new symmetry that appears when the hypothetical dark matter particle is heavy compared to the known elementary particles, a situation which is well motivated by the null results of searches at the LHC and elsewhere. The new symmetry predicts a universal interaction between dark matter and ordinary matter, which in turn may be used to determine the event rate and detectable energy in dark matter direct detection experiments. The computation of heavy wino and higgsino dark matter presented in this work has become a benchmark for the field of direct detection. This thesis has also spawned a new field of investigation in dark matter indirect detection, determining heavy WIMP annihilation rates using effective field theory methods. It describes a new formalism for implementing Lorentz invariance constraints in nonrelativistic theories, with a surprising result at 1/M^4 order that contradicts the prevailing ansatz in the past 20 years of heavy quark literature. The author has also derived new perturbative QCDresults to provide the definitive analysis of key Standard Model observables such as heavy quark scalar matrix elements of the nucleon.  This is an influential thesis, with impacts in dark matter phenomenology, field theory formalism and precision hadronic physics.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, USA

    Mikhail P. Solon

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Heavy WIMP Effective Theory

  • Book Subtitle: Formalism and Applications for Scattering on Nucleon Targets

  • Authors: Mikhail P. Solon

  • Series Title: Springer Theses

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25199-8

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-25197-4Published: 02 March 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-79750-2Published: 08 April 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-25199-8Published: 22 February 2016

  • Series ISSN: 2190-5053

  • Series E-ISSN: 2190-5061

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 177

  • Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations, 12 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory, Cosmology, Quantum Field Theories, String Theory

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