https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-6523-4
Regular Article - Experimental Physics
Limits on dark matter effective field theory parameters with CRESST-II
1
Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, 80805, Munich, Germany
2
INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, 67010, Assergi, Italy
3
Physik-Department and Excellence Cluster Universe, Technische Universität München, 85748, Garching, Germany
4
Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, 72076, Tübingen, Germany
5
Institut für Hochenergiephysik der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1050, Vienna, Austria
6
Atominstitut, Vienna University of Technology, 1020, Vienna, Austria
7
Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3RH, UK
8
Department of Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, 412 96, Göteborg, Sweden
* e-mail: vincent.schipperges@uni-tuebingen.de
** e-mail: catena@chalmers.se
Received:
11
September
2018
Accepted:
17
December
2018
Published online:
18
January
2019
CRESST is a direct dark matter search experiment, aiming for an observation of nuclear recoils induced by the interaction of dark matter particles with cryogenic scintillating calcium tungstate crystals. Instead of confining ourselves to standard spin-independent and spin-dependent searches, we re-analyze data from CRESST-II using a more general effective field theory (EFT) framework. On many of the EFT coupling constants, improved exclusion limits in the low-mass region (< 3–4 GeV/
) are presented.
© The Author(s), 2019
