Shell-model study on event rates of lightest supersymmetric particles scattering off 83Kr and 125TePirinen, Pekka; Srivastava, P. C.; Suhonen, Jouni; Kortelainen, Markus Pirinen, P., Srivastava, P. C., Suhonen, J., & Kortelainen, M. (2016 We investigate the elastic and inelastic scattering of lightest supersymmetric particle (LSP) dark matter off two possible target nuclei, 83 Kr and 125 Te. For the nuclear-structure calculations, we employ the nuclear shell model using recently generated realistic interactions. We have condensed the nuclear-physics contribution to a set of nuclear-structure factors that are independent of the adopted supersymmetric (SUSY) model. Total event rates are then easily calculated by combining the nuclear-structure factors with SUSY parameters of choice. In particular, 125 Te shows promise as a detector material with both the elastic and inelastic channels yielding an appreciable nuclear response.