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Dark Matter Blind Spots at One-Loop
We evaluate the impact of one-loop electroweak corrections to the
spin-independent dark matter (DM) scattering cross-section with nucleons
(), in models with a so-called blind spot for direct
detection, where the leading-order prediction for the relevant DM coupling to
the Higgs boson, and therefore , are vanishingly small.
Adopting a simple illustrative scenario in which the DM state results from the
mixing of electroweak singlet and doublet fermions, we compute the relevant
higher order corrections to the scalar effective operator contributions to
, stemming from both triangle and box diagrams involving the
SM and dark sector fields. It is observed that in a significant region of the
singlet-doublet model-space, the one-loop corrections ``unblind'' the
tree-level blind spots and lead to detectable SI scattering rates at future
multi-ton scale liquid Xenon experiments, with reaching
values up to a few times , for a weak scale DM with
Yukawa couplings. Furthermore, we find that there always
exists a new SI blind spot at the next-to-leading order, which is
perturbatively shifted from the leading order one in the singlet-doublet mass
parameters. For comparison, we also present the tree-level spin-dependent
scattering cross-sections near the SI blind-spot region, that could lead to a
larger signal. Our results can be mapped to the blind-spot scenario for
bino-Higgsino DM in the MSSM, with other sfermions, the heavier Higgs boson,
and the wino decoupled.Comment: 20 pages, 5 figures; Minor corrections, references updated, version
published in JHE
A Sparse Graph-Structured Lasso Mixed Model for Genetic Association with Confounding Correction
While linear mixed model (LMM) has shown a competitive performance in
correcting spurious associations raised by population stratification, family
structures, and cryptic relatedness, more challenges are still to be addressed
regarding the complex structure of genotypic and phenotypic data. For example,
geneticists have discovered that some clusters of phenotypes are more
co-expressed than others. Hence, a joint analysis that can utilize such
relatedness information in a heterogeneous data set is crucial for genetic
modeling.
We proposed the sparse graph-structured linear mixed model (sGLMM) that can
incorporate the relatedness information from traits in a dataset with
confounding correction. Our method is capable of uncovering the genetic
associations of a large number of phenotypes together while considering the
relatedness of these phenotypes. Through extensive simulation experiments, we
show that the proposed model outperforms other existing approaches and can
model correlation from both population structure and shared signals. Further,
we validate the effectiveness of sGLMM in the real-world genomic dataset on two
different species from plants and humans. In Arabidopsis thaliana data, sGLMM
behaves better than all other baseline models for 63.4% traits. We also discuss
the potential causal genetic variation of Human Alzheimer's disease discovered
by our model and justify some of the most important genetic loci.Comment: Code available at https://github.com/YeWenting/sGLM
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