smellouk / DarkARC

Dark Matter-induced Atomic Response Code (DarkARC) - A python tool for the calculation and tabulation of atomic response functions for ionization via dark matter-electron scatterings.

Dark Matter-induced Atomic Response Code (DarkARC)

Python tool for the computation and tabulation of atomic response functions for direct sub-GeV dark matter (DM) searches.

GENERAL NOTES

• This code computes the four atomic response functions introduced in the paper [arXiv:1912.08204].
• The tabulation of the atomic response functions is separated into two steps:
  • the computation and tabulation of three radial integrals (via /src/radial_integrals_tabulation.py).
  • their combination into the response function tables (via /src/atomic_responses_tabulation.py).
• The computations are performed in parallel using the multiprocessing library.

CONTENT

The included folders are:

• /data/: Destination folder of the code's output (tables of integration methods, radial integrals, and finally atomic response functions).
• /src/: Contains the source code.

CITING THIS CODE

If you decide to use this code, please cite the latest archived version,

[DOI:10.5281/zenodo.3581334]

as well as the original publications,

Catena, R., Emken, T. , Spaldin, N., and Tarantino, W., Atomic responses to general dark matter-electron interactions, [arXiv:1912.08204].

VERSIONS

• v1.0 (18/12/2019): Version released with v1 of the preprint [arXiv:1912.08204v1].

AUTHORS & CONTACT

The author of this tool is Timon Emken.

For questions, bug reports or other suggestions please contact [e-mail].

LICENCE

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file.