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Author ORCID Identifier
Date Available
6-29-2021
Year of Publication
2021
Document Type
Doctoral Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
College
Arts and Sciences
Department/School/Program
Physics and Astronomy
Faculty
Dr. Richard J. Hill
Faculty
Dr. Christopher Crawford
Abstract
Weakly-interacting-massive-particles (WIMPs) are a large class of viable dark matter candidates. We compute cross sections for electroweak-doublet WIMPs scattering on atomic nuclei, at leading and subleading order using heavy WIMP effective field theory. Neutrino-nucleon charged current elastic scattering is an important process in the detectors of long baseline accelerator neutrino oscillation experiments. We compute QED radiative corrections to this process employing soft-collinear effective field theory.
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.13023/etd.2021.241
Funding Information
This study was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy (No. DE‐SC0019095) from 2018 to 2021.
Recommended Citation
Chen, Qing, "EFFECTIVE FIELD THEORY APPLICATIONS: FROM DARK MATTER TO NEUTRINO NUCLEON SCATTERING" (2021). Theses and Dissertations--Physics and Astronomy. 86.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/physastron_etds/86
