Speaker
Dr
Oleg Titov
(TDLI-SJTU)
Description
The talk is devoted to the role of excited final nuclear states in WIMP-nucleus scattering. We generalize the formalism of non-relativistic effective field theory to inelastic scattering and apply the state-of-the-art Relativistic Configuration-interaction Density functional theory to evaluate the event rates in direct detection experiments. We show that for certain interaction operators, the expected signal is significantly enhanced, by 1-3 orders of magnitude, if one takes the contribution of inelastic channel into account.