Analogies between nuclear physics and Dark Matter

TL;DR

This paper explores a novel analogy between nuclear physics and dark matter, developing a fermionic model and analyzing interactions with potential implications for understanding dark matter properties.

Contribution

It introduces a fermionic dark matter model based on nuclear physics analogies and calculates interaction potentials and cross sections including Sommerfeld enhancement.

Findings

Scalar and vector processes analyzed at tree level

Explicit calculation of two-body potentials using Breit approximation

Identification of Sommerfeld enhancement in cross sections

Abstract

A fermionic description of dark matter using analogies with nuclear physics is developed. At tree level, scalar and vector processes are considered and the two-body potential are explicitly calculated using the Breit approximation. We show that the total cross sections in both cases exhibit Sommerfeld enhancement.