Parton Models and the elastic scattering of supersymmetric dark matter off nucleons

TL;DR

This paper investigates how a flavor broken SU(3)_f dynamical parton model affects predictions of supersymmetric dark matter elastic scattering off nucleons, showing significant differences from standard models.

Contribution

It introduces a flavor broken SU(3)_f dynamical parton model and compares its predictions with the standard parton model for dark matter scattering.

Findings

Predictions differ significantly from standard models

Notable properties of the dynamical model are identified

Implications for dark matter detection are discussed

Abstract

The consequences of a flavor broken SU(3)_f dynamical parton model are studied in the context of the elastic scattering of supersymmetric dark matter off nucleons. It is shown that the predictions of this model differ considerably from those of the commonly applied `standard' parton model. Some notable properties of the dynamical parton model are finally presented and discussed.