Speaker
Anthony Difranzo
Description
To understand and describe Dark Matter on a fundamental level, studies often focus on either a complete theory, such as the MSSM, or an effective field theory. Here we explore a middle ground: a Simplified Model, which specifies a generic UV complete interaction while ignoring structure not necessarily relevant to a calculation. How experiments compliment each other in the context of a UV complete theory and what is missed by the two extreme searches will be discussed. As a specific example, we look at fermionic Dark Matter and a scalar mediator interacting with quarks at the LHC and the direct detection experiments, XENON and COUPP.
