Uncertainties in tellurium-based dark matter searches stemming from
nuclear structure uncertainties
Uncertainties in tellurium-based dark matter searches stemming from
nuclear structure uncertainties
Using tellurium dioxide as a target, we calculate uncertainties on 90% upper confidence limits of Galilean effective field theory (Galilean EFT) couplings to a WIMP dark matter particle due to uncertainties in nuclear shell models. We find that these uncertainties in naturally-occurring tellurium isotopes are comparable across the different Galilean …