TY - JOUR
T1 - Detecting technibaryon dark matter
AU - Bagnasco, John
AU - Dine, Michael
AU - Thomas, Scott
N1 - Funding Information:
Supported m part by the US Department of Energy and the Texas National Research Laboratory Commission under grant numbers RGFY 93-263 and RGFY 93-330.
PY - 1994/1/6
Y1 - 1994/1/6
N2 - The technibaryon constitute a possible dark matter candidate. Such a particle with electroweak quantum numbers is already nearly ruled out as the dominant component of the galactic dark matter by nuclear recoil experiments. Here, the scattering of singlet technibaryons, without electroweak quantum numbers, is considered. For scalar technibaryons the most important interaction is the charge radius. The scattering rates are typically of order 10-4 (kg keV day)-1 for a technicolor scale of 1 TeV. For fermionic technibaryons the most important interaction is the magnetic dipole moment. The scattering rates in this case are considerably larger, typically between 10-1 and 1 (kg keV day)-1, depending on the detector material. Rates this large may be detectable in the next generation of nuclear recoil experiments. Such experiments will also be sensitive to quite small technibaryon electric dipole moments.
AB - The technibaryon constitute a possible dark matter candidate. Such a particle with electroweak quantum numbers is already nearly ruled out as the dominant component of the galactic dark matter by nuclear recoil experiments. Here, the scattering of singlet technibaryons, without electroweak quantum numbers, is considered. For scalar technibaryons the most important interaction is the charge radius. The scattering rates are typically of order 10-4 (kg keV day)-1 for a technicolor scale of 1 TeV. For fermionic technibaryons the most important interaction is the magnetic dipole moment. The scattering rates in this case are considerably larger, typically between 10-1 and 1 (kg keV day)-1, depending on the detector material. Rates this large may be detectable in the next generation of nuclear recoil experiments. Such experiments will also be sensitive to quite small technibaryon electric dipole moments.
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U2 - 10.1016/0370-2693(94)90830-3
DO - 10.1016/0370-2693(94)90830-3
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:9444269140
SN - 0370-2693
VL - 320
SP - 99
EP - 104
JO - Physics Letters B
JF - Physics Letters B
IS - 1-2
ER -