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Low-mass extension of direct detection bounds on WIMP-quark and WIMP-gluon effective interactions using the Migdal effect

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arxiv 2210.00199 v2 pith:3J4TB3DM submitted 2022-10-01 hep-ph hep-ex

Low-mass extension of direct detection bounds on WIMP-quark and WIMP-gluon effective interactions using the Migdal effect

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Updating a previous analysis where we used elastic nuclear recoils we study the Migdal effect to extend to low WIMP masses the direct detection bounds to operators up to dimension 7 of the relativistic effective field theory describing WIMP interactions with quarks and gluons. To this aim we include in our analysis the data of the XENON1T, SuperCDMS, COSINE-100, and DarkSide-50 experiments and assume a standard Maxwellian for the WIMP velocity distribution. We find that the bounds can reach down to a WIMP mass $\simeq$20 MeV, although in the case of higher-dimension operators the energy scale of the ensuing constraints may be inconsistent with the validity of the effective theory.

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