Recent results on searches for direct production of dark matter with the CMS detector

by Philip Coleman Harris (CERN)

Tuesday 21 Jul 2015, 11:00 → 12:00 Europe/Zurich

503/1-001 - Council Chamber (CERN)

With observed galactic excesses, tighter constraints from underground experiments, and a precise measurement of the relic density, our understanding of dark matter has greatly improved. As one of the few sources which can potentially produce dark matter, the LHC has the capability of complementing existing measurements. Recently, work by both ATLAS and CMS has been undertaken to unify the presentation of dark matter results, allowing for a robust comparison with other detector experiments. In this new light, we present two new results from CMS: the search for dark matter in Z + MET final state (Z decaying to leptons) and the search for dark matter in the monojet and hadronically decaying vector boson final state. Results are presented for simplified models, EFT and in terms of Higgs to invisible decays.

PCH_DM_LPCC_20_07.pdf

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