Effective Field Theory approach to lepto-philic self conjugate dark matter

Abstract: We study the self conjugate dark matter (DM) particles interacting primarily with the standard model leptons in an effective field theoretical frame work. We consider SM gauge invariant effective contact interactions between the Majorana fermion, real scalar and a real vector DM with leptons by evaluating the Wilson coefficients appropriate for interaction terms upto dimension-8 and obtain constraints on the parameters of the theory from the observed relic density, indirect detection observations and from the DM-electron scattering cross-sections in the direct detection experiments. Low energy LEP data has been used to study sensitivity in the pair production of such low mass $\le$ 80 GeV DM particles. Pair production of DM particles of mass $\ge$ 50 GeV in association with mono-photons at the proposed ILC has rich potential to probe such effective operators.