Dark matter at colliders: A Model independent approach

By A. Birkedal, Konstantin T. Matchev, M. Perelstein. 2004

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Assuming that cosmological dark matter consists of weakly interacting massive particles, we use the recent precise measurement of cosmological parameters to predict the guaranteed rates of production of such particles in association with photons at electron-positron colliders. Our approach is based on general physical principles such as detailed balancing and soft/collinear factorization. It leads to predictions that are valid across a broad range of models containing WIMPs, including supersymmetry, universal extra dimensions, and many others. We also discuss the discovery prospects for the predicted experimental signatures.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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Search for new phenomena in final states with an energetic jet and large missing transverse momentum in pp collisions at root s=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector (2015, unknown): “Here, WIMPs are assumed to be produced in pairs, and the events are identiﬁed via the presence of an energetic jet from initial-state radiation (ISR) [37–40] yielding large missing transverse momentum.”
Dark Matter Candidates from Particle Physics and Methods of Detection (2010, background): “At the International Linear Collider, a proposed high energy e+e− collider, such signals can been disentangled from background, using the fact that the initial state particles have definite energy and may be polarized, which provides a useful diagnostic (118).”
Double-Disk Dark Matter (2013, background): “Other searches [119–121] rely on crossing the interaction (see Appendix A) responsible for either direct or indirect searches.”
Maverick dark matter at colliders (2010, result): “Our effective field theory description of dark matter is largely model independent, but differs in important ways from previous model-independent analyses [16–18].”
Precise calculation of the relic density of Kaluza-Klein dark matter in universal extra dimensions (2005, methodology): “We have also used the same code for independent studies of the collider and astroparticle signatures of UED [25, 33, 58, 65] and thus have tested it from a different angle as well.”
Benchmarks for dark matter searches at the LHC (2014, background): “1) [1] |i = 1 3 δ i A |m , [8]|i = A|i − 1 3 δ i A |m .”
Search for dark matter candidates and large extra dimensions in events with a jet and missing transverse momentum with the ATLAS detector (2012, background): “In a more model-independent approach, WIMP pair production at colliders is proposed to yield detectable E T if the WIMP pair is tagged by a jet or photon from initial- or finalstate radiation (ISR/FSR) [13, 31].”