Dark Photons at LHCb

by Philip Ilten (University of Birmingham (GB)), Wei Xue (CERN)

Thursday 12 Apr 2018, 11:00 → 13:00 Europe/Zurich

13/2-005 (CERN)

With no clear dark matter candidates experimentally observed,
interest has been renewed in treating dark matter as a hidden sector
with a weak connection to the standard model. Here we explore the dark
photon model, a possible portal between dark matter and the standard
model, and present searches for the dark photon using the LHCb
detector. The phenomenology work of arXiv:1509.06765, arXiv:1603.08926, 
and arXiv:1801.04847, and the experimental work of arXiv:1710.02867 will 
be covered.