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The experimental strategy for direct dark matter detection is based on measuring a recoil of a nucleus after scattering with WIMP dark matter. For this process we can choose the optimal nuclear target based on the largest possible recoil energy. We start with the non-relativistic relation between the momenta in relative coordinates between the nucleus and the WIMP, assuming a nucleus composed of A nucleons and with charge Z.
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Bauer, M., Plehn, T. (2019). Direct Searches. In: Yet Another Introduction to Dark Matter. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 959. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16234-4_6
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