Speaker
Dr
Daniel Gazda
(Chalmers University of Technology)
Description
In this contribution we will report on calculations of reaction rates for dark matter
particles scattering off selected nuclear targets relevant for dark matter direct
detection experiments. A model-independent effective field theory approach was used
to construct the most general form of low-energy dark matter particle-nucleus
interaction. The resulting nuclear matrix elements were evaluated with nuclear wave
functions computed within an ab initio many-body framework employing realistic
state-of-the-art nuclear interactions derived from chiral effective field theory. In
this work, we focused in particular on quantification of systematic nuclear-structure
uncertainties and their propagation to physical observables.
Primary author
Dr
Daniel Gazda
(Chalmers University of Technology)
