Dark matter searches at LHCb

3 May 2022, 11:30
20m
Parallel talk WG3: Electroweak Physics and Beyond the Standard Model WG3: Electroweak Physics and Beyond the Standard Model

Speaker

Carlos Vazquez Sierra (CERN)

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The LHCb detector at the LHC offers unique coverage of forward rapidities. The detector also has a flexible trigger that enables low-mass states to be recorded with high efficiency, and a precision vertex detector that enables excellent separation of primary interactions from secondary decays. This allows LHCb to make significant (and world-leading) contributions in these regions of phase space in the search for long-lived particles that would be predicted by dark sectors which accommodate dark matter candidates. A selection of results from searches of dark photons, hidden-sector particles, and dark matter candidates produced from heavy-flavour decays among others will be presented, alongside the potential for future measurements in these final states.

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