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Snowmass White Paper: Effective Field Theories for Dark Matter Phenomenology
Document Type
Working Paper
Source
Subject
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Language
Abstract
The quest to discover the nature of dark matter continues to drive many of the experimental and observational frontiers in particle physics, astronomy, and cosmology. While there are no definitive signatures to date, there exists a rich ecosystem of experiments searching for signals for a broad class of dark matter models, at different epochs of cosmic history, and through a variety of processes with different characteristic energy scales. Given the multitude of candidates and search strategies, effective field theory has been an important tool for parametrizing the possible interactions between dark matter and Standard Model probes, for quantifying and improving model-independent uncertainties, and for robust estimation of detection rates in the presence of large perturbative corrections. This white paper summarizes a wide range of effective field theory applications for connecting dark matter theories to experiments.
Comment: 30 pages, 8 figures