WIMP dark matter candidates and searches—current status and future prospects

L Roszkowski, EM Sessolo… - Reports on Progress in …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We review several current aspects of dark matter theory and experiment. We overview the
present experimental status, which includes current bounds and recent claims and hints of a …

The waning of the WIMP? A review of models, searches, and constraints

G Arcadi, M Dutra, P Ghosh, M Lindner… - The European Physical …, 2018 - Springer
Abstract Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) are among the best-motivated dark
matter candidates. No conclusive signal, despite an extensive search program that …

Dark matter benchmark models for early LHC run-2 searches: report of the ATLAS/CMS dark matter forum

D Abercrombie, N Akchurin, E Akilli, JA Maestre… - Physics of the Dark …, 2020 - Elsevier
This document is the final report of the ATLAS-CMS Dark Matter Forum, a forum organized
by the ATLAS and CMS collaborations with the participation of experts on theories of Dark …

Review of LHC dark matter searches

F Kahlhoefer - International Journal of Modern Physics A, 2017 - World Scientific
This review discusses both experimental and theoretical aspects of searches for dark matter
at the LHC. An overview of the various experimental search channels is given, followed by a …

Scalar simplified models for dark matter

MR Buckley, D Feld, D Goncalves - Physical Review D, 2015 - APS
We introduce a set of minimal simplified models for dark matter interactions with the
Standard Model, connecting the two sectors via either a scalar or pseudoscalar particle …

Simplified models for dark matter searches at the LHC

J Abdallah, H Araujo, A Arbey, A Ashkenazi… - Physics of the Dark …, 2015 - Elsevier
This document a outlines a set of simplified models for dark matter and its interactions with
Standard Model particles. It is intended to summarize the main characteristics that these …

Anatomy of the inert two-Higgs-doublet model in the light of the LHC and non-LHC dark matter searches

A Belyaev, G Cacciapaglia, IP Ivanov, F Rojas-Abatte… - Physical Review D, 2018 - APS
The inert two-Higgs-doublet model (i2HDM) is a theoretically well-motivated example of a
minimal consistent dark matter (DM) model which provides monojet, mono-Z, mono-Higgs …

Characterising dark matter searches at colliders and direct detection experiments: Vector mediators

O Buchmueller, MJ Dolan, SA Malik… - Journal of High Energy …, 2015 - Springer
A bstract We introduce a Minimal Simplified Dark Matter (MSDM) framework to quantitatively
characterise dark matter (DM) searches at the LHC. We study two MSDM models where the …

Constraints on mediator-based dark matter and scalar dark energy models using TeV collision data collected by the ATLAS detector

Atlas Collaboration - arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.01400, 2019 - arxiv.org
Constraints on selected mediator-based dark matter models and a scalar dark energy model
using up to $37~\mathrm {fb}^{-1} $$\sqrt s= 13$ TeV $ pp $ collision data collected by the …

On the validity of the effective field theory for dark matter searches at the LHC, part II: complete analysis for the s-channel

G Busoni, A De Simone, J Gramling… - … of Cosmology and …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
We generalize in several directions our recent analysis of the limitations to the use of the
effective field theory approach to study dark matter at the LHC. Firstly, we study the full list of …