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Nuclear-Structure Uncertainties in Tellurium Dark-Matter Direct Detection

A propagation of nuclear shell-model uncertainties into limits on Galilean effective-field-theory WIMP-nucleon couplings for tellurium-dioxide dark-matter detectors. It shows the resulting spread in 90% upper confidence limits is comparable to xenon and can exceed 100%, that annual-modulation-amplitude uncertainty scales with the non-modulating limit uncertainty, and that the modulation phase is insensitive to the choice of nuclear model.