Searches for dark matter with the ATLAS detector

3 May 2022, 11:50
20m
Parallel talk WG3: Electroweak Physics and Beyond the Standard Model WG3: Electroweak Physics and Beyond the Standard Model

Speaker

Danika MacDonell (University of Victoria (CA))

Description

The presence of a non-baryonic Dark Matter (DM) component in the Universe is inferred from the observation of its gravitational interaction. If Dark Matter interacts weakly with the Standard Model (SM) it could be produced at the LHC. The ATLAS experiment has developed a broad search program for DM candidates, including resonance searches for the mediator which would couple DM to the SM, searches with large missing transverse momentum produced in association with other particles (light and heavy quarks, photons, Z and H bosons) called mono-X searches and searches where the Higgs boson provides a portal to Dark Matter, leading to invisible Higgs decays. The results of recent searches on 13 TeV pp data, their interplay and interpretation will be presented.

Submitted on behalf of a Collaboration? Yes

Authors

ATLAS Collaboration Danika MacDonell (University of Victoria (CA))

Co-author

Imma Riu (IFAE Barcelona (ES))

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