… the effective field theory approach to studying dark matter at the LHC, by investigating the
case in which Dirac dark matter … for the validity of the effective field theory description, for both …

… to the use of the effective field theory approach to study dark matter at the LHC. Firstly, we
study the … ; secondly, we provide analytical results for the validity of the EFT description for both …

… Abstract: We study the validity of effective field theory (EFT) interpretations of monojet searches
for dark matter at the LHC for … In section 3 we show that the EFT limit on Λ only applies to …

… ); in section 3 we describe the … section 4 we focus on the peculiar kinematic properties
associated with different DM spins and operators; in section 5 we compare our results against LHC …

… In Section 3, we provide an estimate of the energy transfer … In Section 4, we introduce
various model-independent ratios to quantify the validity of the EFT approach; in the same section …

… dark matter (DM). We find limits using LHC monojet data, spin independent and spin
dependent direct searches, relic density and CMB, and show the interplay between high and low …

… of simplified models and Effective Field Theory (EFT) approaches in dark matter searches. We
… collider searches for dark matter, but also with implications for direct and indirect detection …

… In section 2 we describe the theory of EFT operators we use. In section 3 we describe our …
method, in section 4 we present the results, and in section 5 we present our conclusions. …

… 4 Applications to spin-independent searches In section 3 we presented the full 16 × 16
anomalous dimension matrices describing the one-loop RG evolution for dimension 6 operators …

… In the mono-jet DM search we discuss in section 3 this is quite a reasonable approximation
since data-driven background estimate is the major source of uncertainty. In the hypothesis …