Determining Dark-Matter–Electron Scattering Rates from the Dielectric Function

Determining Dark-Matter–Electron Scattering Rates from the Dielectric Function

We show that the rate for dark-matter-electron scattering in an arbitrary material is determined by an experimentally measurable quantity, the complex dielectric function, for any dark matter interaction that couples to electron density. This formulation automatically includes many-body effects, eli...

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Main Authors: Hochberg, Yonit, Kahn, Yonatan, Kurinsky, Noah, Lehmann, Benjamin V, Yu, To Chin, Berggren, Karl K
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society (APS) 2022
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/142772

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