Constraining the interaction strength between dark matter and visible matter: II. Scalar, vector and spin-3/2 dark matter

2011/12/31 by Zhao-Huan Yu, Jia-Ming Zheng, Jiaming Zheng +5 · 1 citation
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics #Cosmology #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #Dark energy #Dark fluid #Dark matter #Light dark matter #Mathematics #Mixed dark matter #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #Scalar (mathematics) #Scalar field dark matter #Spin (aerodynamics) #Warm dark matter #Weakly interacting massive particles #astro-ph.CO #astro-ph.HE #hep-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2012.02.016

published as Nucl.Phys.B860:115-151,2012 · 31 pages, 28 figures, 3 tables, references added, minor changes

arxiv created 2012/01/07 · openalex publication_date 2012/03/05 · arxiv updated 2012/03/14 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

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 general 4-particle operators up to dimension 6 for the effective interaction between dark matter and standard model particles. We find that the constraints from different experiments are complementary with each other. Comparison among these constraints may exclude some effective models of dark matter and limit some parameters of others. The spin-independent direct detection gives 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.

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