Dark Matter Effective Theory

Abstract

Les Houches 2021 lectures on dark matter effective field theory (short course). The aim of these two lectures is to calculate the DM-nucleus cross section for a simple example, and then generalize to the treatment of general effective interactions of spin-1/2 DM. Relativistic local operators, the heavy-DM effective theory, the chiral effective Lagrangian, and nuclear effective operators are briefly discussed.

Comments: 23 pages, 4 figures. Submitted to SciPost Physics Lecture Notes, Les Houches Summer School Series. Improved discussion, corrected typographical errors