Can Kilic

Two topics that connect Dark Matter and the LHC: Flavored Dark Matter and the Consequences of Grand Unification

by Can Kilic

US/Central
Sunrise (Fermilab)

Sunrise

Fermilab

Description
While Dark Matter searches are usually thought of as a separate frontier in the search for new physics, there are scenarios of weakly interacting Dark Matter candidates that have a very distinct collider phenomenology. In this talk I will dwell on two aspects that highlight the connection between Dark Matter and the LHC. In the first half of the talk I will talk about the case of Flavored Dark Matter (FDM) where the DM particle has two additional flavor partners just as the particles in the Standard Model do. This setup has interesting consequences for the LHC, as it will lead to the production of multiple leptons or jets in addition to MET. I will argue that such signatures can not only be discovered above SM backgrounds but they can be distinguished from the case of conventional DM. In the second half of the talk I will investigate the consequences of two basic assumptions, that TeV-scale DM interacts via the weak force and that the SM interactions unify at a high scale. I will illustrate that these assumptions are sufficient to predict interesting consequences for the LHC, such as additional production channels for the Higgs boson or the existence of collider stable particles. Title: LPC Topic of the Week: Can Kilic Description: Community: CMS Meeting Access Information: - Meeting URL http://evo.caltech.edu/evoNext/koala.jnlp?meeting=M9MIMi292BDeDt9a9tDD99 - Phone Bridge ID: 507 2709 Central Daylight Time (-0500) Start 2012-04-20 12:30 End 2012-04-20 15:00 Japan Standard Time (+0900) Start 2012-04-21 02:30 End 2012-04-21 05:00 Central European Summer Time (+0200) Start 2012-04-20 19:30 End 2012-04-20 22:00 Eastern Daylight Time (-0400) Start 2012-04-20 13:30 End 2012-04-20 16:00 Pacific Daylight Time (-0700) Start 2012-04-20 10:30 End 2012-04-20 13:00 EVO Phone Bridge Telephone Numbers: --------------- - USA (Caltech, Pasadena, CA) +1 626 395 2112 - Switzerland (CERN, Geneva) +41 22 76 71400 - Slovakia (UPJS, Kosice) +421 55 234 2420 - Italy (INFN, several cities) http://server10.infn.it/video/index.php?page=telephone_numbers Enter '4000' to access the EVO bridge - Germany (DESY, Hamburg) +49 40 8998 1340 - USA (BNL, Upton, NY) +1 631 344 6100 - United Kingdom (University of Manchester) +44 161 306 6802 - Australia (ARCS) +61 Adelaide 08 8463 1011 Brisbane 07 3139 0705 Canberra 02 6112 8742 Hobart 03 623 70281 Melbourne 03 8685 8362 Perth 08 6461 6718 Sydney 02 8212 4591 - Netherlands (Nikhef, Amsterdam) +31 20 7165293 Dial '2' at the prompt - Canada (TRIUMF, Vancouver) +1 604 222 7700 - Czech Republic (CESNET, Prague) +420 95 007 2386 - France (RAP, Paris) +33 144 27 81 50 - Skype (tm) (World-wide) evo.phone See: http://evo.caltech.edu/evoGate/Documentation/extclient/skype/skype.html
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