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Description
The Standard Model (SM) of particle physics has provided countless highly accurate predictions over the years, making it one of the most successful theories in physics. However, once under the scrutiny of increasingly precise experiments some discrepancies have emerged. The long standing discrepancy in the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon was one of the first indication of the need for new physics involving lepton flavour universality violation. Even more recently, the decays of B-mesons have also been found to indicate lepton violation. In addition, the already well established fact of the existence of Dark Matter poses yet another problem that needs to be solved.
By extending the SM with a set of new fields with the freedom to couple to the SM fermions a class of models that can solve all of these problems is created. As such, these models have gained a lot of traction and are currently being extensively studied. This project will examine the searches that can be realized at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) involving the production of Dark Matter. A careful characterization of the missing energy distributions that can arise from these models will potentially provide an invaluable channel of further constricting their properties and parameters.
