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Direct Detection of Vector Dark Matter

Hisano, Junji
Ishiwata, Koji
Nagata, Natsumi
Yamanaka, Masato
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Abstract

In this paper, we complete formulae for the elastic scattering cross section of general vector dark matter with nucleons in the direct detection at the leading order of the strong coupling constant α_s, assuming that the dark matter is composed of vector particles and interacts with heavy fermions with color charge as well as standard-model quark. As an application of our formulae, the direct detection of the first Kaluza-Klein photon in the minimal universal extra dimension model is discussed. It is found that the scattering cross section is larger than those in the previous works by up to a factor of ten.

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© 2011 Progress of Theoretical Physics. Received June 28, 2011. The work was supported in part by Grants-in-Aid from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), Government of Japan, No. 20244037, No. 2054252, and No. 2244021 (J.H.). The work of J.H. is also supported by the World Premier International Research Center Initiative (WPI Initiative), MEXT, Japan. This work was also supported in part by the U.S. Department of Energy under contract No. DE-FG02-92ER40701, and by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (K.I.).

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