Tools for model-independent bounds in direct dark matter searches

TL;DR

This paper introduces a framework and tools that allow researchers to derive model-independent bounds from direct dark matter detection experiments, applicable to a wide range of dark matter models.

Contribution

It provides a non-relativistic operator-based framework and numerical tools for model-independent analysis of direct detection data.

Findings

Enables derivation of bounds for arbitrary dark matter models.

Applicable to various experiments and scattering scenarios.

Facilitates comparison across different dark matter theories.

Abstract

We discuss a framework (based on non-relativistic operators) and a self-contained set of numerical tools to derive the bounds from some current direct detection experiments on virtually any arbitrary model of Dark Matter elastically scattering on nuclei.