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#### Nuclear σ-terms and Scalar-Isoscalar WIMP-Nucleus Interactions from Lattice QCD

Published 2013-06-28, updated 2015-03-18Version 2

It has been argued that the leading scalar-isoscalar WIMP-nucleus interactions receive parametrically enhanced contributions in the context of nuclear effective field theories. These contributions arise from meson-exchange currents (MECs) and potentially modify the impulse approximation estimates of these interactions by 10--60%. We point out that these MECs also contribute to the quark mass dependence of nuclear binding energies, that is, nuclear \sigma-terms. In this work, we use recent lattice QCD calculations of the binding energies of the deuteron, He-3 and He-4 at pion masses near 500 MeV and 800 MeV, combined with the experimentally determined binding energies at the physical point, to provide approximate determinations of the \sigma-terms for these light nuclei. For each nucleus, we find that the deviation of the corresponding nuclear \sigma-term from the single-nucleon estimate is at the few percent level, in conflict with the conjectured enhancement. As a consequence, lattice QCD calculations currently indicate that the cross sections for scalar-isoscalar WIMP-nucleus interactions arising from fundamental WIMP interactions with quarks do not suffer from significant uncertainties due to enhanced meson-exchange currents.

Journal: Phys. Rev. D 89, 074505 (2014)
Categories: hep-ph, hep-lat, nucl-th
Subjects: 12.38.Gc
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