物理百年:1950～2050

<正>物理学刚刚经历了一个伟大的世纪:量子力学、核能与核武器、大型粒子加速器、晶体管和随之而来的各种量子器件,以及从夸克到暗能量的各种重大发现。物理学统治了整个20世纪。在《时代》杂     

Effects of nuclear deformation on the form factor for direct dark matter detection

For the detection of direct dark matter, in order to extract useful information about the fundamental interactions from the data, it is crucial to properly determine the nuclear form factor. The form factor for the spin-independent cross section of collisions between dark matter particles and the nucleus has been thoroughly studied by many authors. When the analysis was carried out, the nuclei were always supposed to be spherically symmetric. In this work, we investigate the effects of the deformation of nuclei from a spherical shape to an elliptical one on the form factor. Our results indicate that as long as the ellipticity is not too large, such deformation will not cause any substantial effects. In particular, when the nuclei are randomly orientated in room-temperature circumstances, one can completely neglect them.