Dark matter scattering cross section in Yang-Mills theory [CL]

http://arxiv.org/abs/1910.01440


We calculate for the first time the scattering cross section between lightest glueballs in SU(2) pure Yang-Mills theory, which are good candidates of dark matter. In the first step, we evaluate the interglueball potential on lattice using the time-dependent formalism of the HAL QCD method, with one lattice spacing. The statistical accuracy is improved by employing the cluster-decomposition error reduction technique and by using all space-time symmetries. We then derive the scattering phase shift and the scattering cross section at low energy, which is compared with the observational constraint on the dark matter self-scattering. We determine the lower bound on the scale parameter of the SU(2) Yang-Mills theory, as $\Lambda$ > 60 MeV.

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N. Yamanaka, H. Iida, A. Nakamura, et. al.
Fri, 4 Oct 19
47/61

Comments: 4 pages, 2 figures. Letter. It will be followed by a full paper