Dark matter effective theory
Joachim Brod
SciPost Phys. Lect. Notes 38 (2022) · published 31 January 2022
Part of the 2021-07: Dark Matter Collection in the Les Houches Summer School Lecture Notes Series.
- doi: 10.21468/SciPostPhysLectNotes.38
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Abstract
Les Houches 2021 lectures on dark matter effective field theory (short course). The aim of these two lectures is to calculate the DM-nucleus cross section for a simple example, and then generalize to the treatment of general effective interactions of spin-1/2 DM. Relativistic local operators, the heavy-DM effective theory, the chiral effective Lagrangian, and nuclear effective operators are briefly discussed.