LEADER 04717nam 22006855 450 001 9910254627503321 005 20200705063508.0 010 $a3-319-25199-6 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-319-25199-8 035 $a(CKB)3710000000602313 035 $a(EBL)4419948 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001653512 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16433701 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001653512 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14982599 035 $a(PQKB)10652155 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-319-25199-8 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4419948 035 $a(PPN)192222945 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000602313 100 $a20160222d2016 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aHeavy WIMP Effective Theory $eFormalism and Applications for Scattering on Nucleon Targets /$fby Mikhail P. Solon 205 $a1st ed. 2016. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Springer,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (188 p.) 225 1 $aSpringer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research,$x2190-5053 300 $a"Doctoral Thesis accepted by The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA." 311 $a3-319-25197-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aHeavy WIMP Effective Theory -- Heavy-particle Spacetime Symmetries and Building Blocks -- Effective Theory at the Weak-scale -- Weak-scale Matching -- QCD Analysis and Hadronic Matrix Elements -- Heavy WIMP-Nucleon Scattering Cross Sections -- Conclusions -- Appendix A: Solution to the Invariance Equation -- Appendix B: Integrals and Inputs for Weak Scale Matching -- Appendix C: Inputs for Analysis of QCD Effects and Hadronic Matrix Elements. 330 $aThis book is about dark matter?s particle nature and the implications of a new symmetry that appears when a hypothetical dark matter particle is heavy compared to known elementary particles. Dark matter exists and composes about 85% of the matter in the universe, but it cannot be explained in terms of the known elementary particles. Discovering dark matter's particle nature is one of the most pressing open problems in particle physics. This thesis derives the implications of a new symmetry that appears when the hypothetical dark matter particle is heavy compared to the known elementary particles, a situation which is well motivated by the null results of searches at the LHC and elsewhere. The new symmetry predicts a universal interaction between dark matter and ordinary matter, which in turn may be used to determine the event rate and detectable energy in dark matter direct detection experiments. The computation of heavy wino and higgsino dark matter presented in this work has become a benchmark for the field of direct detection. This thesis has also spawned a new field of investigation in dark matter indirect detection, determining heavy WIMP annihilation rates using effective field theory methods. It describes a new formalism for implementing Lorentz invariance constraints in nonrelativistic theories, with a surprising result at 1/M^4 order that contradicts the prevailing ansatz in the past 20 years of heavy quark literature. The author has also derived new perturbative QCD results to provide the definitive analysis of key Standard Model observables such as heavy quark scalar matrix elements of the nucleon.  This is an influential thesis, with impacts in dark matter phenomenology, field theory formalism and precision hadronic physics. 410 0$aSpringer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research,$x2190-5053 606 $aElementary particles (Physics) 606 $aQuantum field theory 606 $aCosmology 606 $aString theory 606 $aElementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/P23029 606 $aCosmology$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/P22049 606 $aQuantum Field Theories, String Theory$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/P19048 615 0$aElementary particles (Physics). 615 0$aQuantum field theory. 615 0$aCosmology. 615 0$aString theory. 615 14$aElementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory. 615 24$aCosmology. 615 24$aQuantum Field Theories, String Theory. 676 $a539.758 700 $aSolon$b Mikhail P$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0805103 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910254627503321 996 $aHeavy WIMP Effective Theory$92518829 997 $aUNINA