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Recommendations of the LHC Dark Matter Working Group : comparing LHC searches for dark matter mediators in visible and invisible decay channels and calculations of the thermal relic density
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Abstract
Weakly-coupled TeV-scale particles may mediate the interactions between normal matter and dark matter. If so, the LHC would produce dark matter through these mediators, leading to the familiar "mono-X"' search signatures, but the mediators would also produce signals without missing momentum via the same vertices involved in their production. This document from the LHC Dark Matter Working Group suggests how to compare searches for these two types of signals in case of vector and axial-vector mediators, based on a workshop that took place on September 19/20, 2016 and subsequent discussions. These suggestions include how to extend the spin-1 mediated simplified models already in widespread use to include lepton couplings. This document also provides analytic calculations of the relic density in the simplified models and reports an issue that arose when ATLAS and CMS first began to use preliminary numerical calculations of the dark matter relic density in these models. (c) 2019 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Language
English
Source (journal)
Physics of the Dark Universe. - -
Publication
2019
ISSN
2212-6864
DOI
10.1016/J.DARK.2019.100377
Volume/pages
26 (2019) , 9 p.
Article Reference
UNSP 100377
ISI
000499696200030
Medium
E-only publicatie
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