Dark Matter Production Associated With a Heavy Quarkonium at B Factories

TL;DR

This paper explores the production of light dark matter in association with heavy quarkonium at B factories using an effective field theory approach, setting bounds on new physics and dark matter interactions.

Contribution

It provides a model-independent analysis of dark matter production with heavy quarkonium, deriving bounds on new physics scales and dark matter-nucleon cross sections.

Findings

Set bounds on the energy scale of new physics for various operators.

Derived limits on dark matter-nucleon scattering cross sections for light dark matter.

Compared dark matter production signals with standard model backgrounds.

Abstract

We investigate light dark matter production associated with a heavy quarkonium at B factories in a model-independent way by adopting the effective field theory approach for the interaction of dark matter with standard model particles. We consider the effective operators for the dark matter-heavy quark interaction, which are relevant to the production of dark matter associated with a heavy quarkonium. We calculate the cross sections for dark matter production associated with a J/psi or eta_c to compare with the standard model backgrounds. We set bounds on the energy scale of new physics for various effective operators and also obtain the corresponding limits for the dark matter-nucleon scattering cross sections for light dark matter with mass of the order of a few GeV.