Download or read book Complementarity of Dark Matter Searches in the Phenomenological MSSM written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Complementarity of Dark Matter Searches in the PMSSM written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Complementarity and Searches for Dark Matter in the PMSSM written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Particle Dark Matter written by Gianfranco Bertone and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-07 with total page 763 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the dark matter problem in particle physics, astrophysics and cosmology for graduate students and researchers.
Download or read book Complementarity in Dark Matter Phenomenology written by Alexander Matthew Wijangco and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The particle nature of dark matter remains an open question to the physics community, despite a monumental effort to determine its properties. These efforts have resulted in a wealth of experimental knowledge and a rich model space of possible explanations. Dark matter phenomenology stands at the intersection of these efforts, and this thesis contains a series of works that attempt to constrain or construct models based on the empirical data. The first of these works details the insights the initial results of the LHC had on isospin violating dark matter in the context of effective operators. The next work deals with the possible effective operators between Dirac dark matter and photon lines at indirect detection experiments. The third is about a model of light scalar mediators used to explain a possible signal at the CDMS experiment. The fourth and final work concerns itself with a particular annihilation topology generated by dark matter going to on-shell mediators.
Download or read book Precision Calculations for Dark Matter Searches in Supersymmetry and in Simplified Models written by Gabriele Coniglio and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of physics beyond the Standard Model is one of the main focuses of particle physics, in which many questions remain unanswered and none of the proposed solutions has emerged as the most probable. Confirming or disproving whether a model is realised in nature requires a precise study of its phenomenology. In quantum field theory, such calculations are often performed using perturbative techniques. The high degree of precision necessary to assess the correctness of the predictions of a given model means, in this context, taking into account higher-order corrections in the interaction in consideration. In this thesis, we calculate next-to-leading order corrections in the strong coupling (or NLO-QCD corrections, from quantum chromodynamics) for several processes in the context of supersymmetry and dark matter searches. We calculate NLO-QCD corrections to the weakino-squark production processes in the Minimal Supersymmetrical Standard Model (MSSM), including the subtraction of the on-shell resonances appearing in the real emission corrections to this process. We match the fixed-order calculation to the parton-shower (PS) program PYTHIA using the POWHEG method. We can therefore calculate the NLO-QCD cross sections including PS effects for these processes and generate differential distributions at the NLO+PS level. These processes are responsible for interesting experimental signatures, like hard jets and large quantities of missing transverse momentum. Our code will be publicly available for future phenomenological and experimental studies. Additionally, we study the phenomenology of dark matter pair-production processes at hadron colliders in the context of simplified models, studying the similarity between these processes and the production of neutralino-pairs in the MSSM. We perform this comparison at NLO-QCD accuracy, exploring a vaste range of supersymmetric scenarios. Simplified models are often interpreted as low-energy limits of a UV-complete theory, and we aim at understanding to what extent an s- and a t-channel model are able to reproduce the phenomenology of the far more complex MSSM. We also investigate the same simplified models for dark matter in a completely different scenario, namely direct detection experiments. We calculate NLO-QCD corrections in the non-relativistic regime and match our results to the Wilson coefficients and operators of an effective field theory, to express our results in the terms generally used for experimental results in direct dark matter searches. We then perform a phenomenological study, comparing the limits set in collider searches and the ones set by the direct detection experiments CRESST and XENON.
Download or read book Dark Matter in the MSSM written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We have recently examined a large number of points in the parameter space of the phenomenological MSSM, the 19-dimensional parameter space of the CP-conserving MSSM with Minimal Flavor Violation. We determined whether each of these points satisfied existing experimental and theoretical constraints. This analysis provides insight into general features of the MSSM without reference to a particular SUSY breaking scenario or any other assumptions at the GUT scale. This study opens up new possibilities for SUSY phenomenology both in colliders and in astrophysical experiments. Here we shall discuss the implications of this analysis relevant to the study of dark matter.
Download or read book Complementarity of Searches for Dark Matter written by Felix Karl David Kahlhoefer and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Theory of Direct Dark Matter Detection written by Eugenio Del Nobile and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-05-09 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a pedagogical guide on how to make computations in direct dark matter (DM) detection. The theory behind the calculation of direct detection cross sections and rates is presented, touching aspects related to elementary particle physics, hadronic physics, nuclear physics, and astrophysics. The book is structured in self-contained sections, covering several topics ranging from the scattering kinematics to the phenomenology of direct DM searches. It follows a model-independent approach, aiming at providing the readers with all that is needed to understand the theory and start their own analysis. Meant for graduate students and researchers with interests in particle physics and phenomenology, it is enriched with several worked examples from standard and non-standard particle DM models. Senior researchers working in different areas related to dark matter, like particle and nuclear physics, astrophysics, and cosmology, find in this book a useful and updated guide for reference.
Download or read book Aspects of WIMP Dark Matter Searches at Colliders and Other Probes written by Enrico Morgante and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis covers several theoretical aspects of WIMP (weakly interacting massive particles) dark matter searches, with a particular emphasis on colliders. It mainly focuses on the use of effective field theories as a tool for Large Hadron Collider (LHC) searches, discussing in detail the issue of their validity, and on simplified dark matter models, which are receiving a growing attention from the physics community. It highlights the theoretical consistency of simplified models, which is essential in order to correctly exploit their potential and for them to be a common reference when comparing results from different experiments. This thesis is of interest to researchers (both theorists and experimentalists) in the field of dark matter searches, and offers a comprehensive introduction to dark matter and to WIMP searches for students and non-experts.
Download or read book Working Group Report written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this Report we discuss the four complementary searches for the identity of dark matter: direct detection experiments that look for dark matter interacting in the lab, indirect detection experiments that connect lab signals to dark matter in our own and other galaxies, collider experiments that elucidate the particle properties of dark matter, and astrophysical probes sensitive to non-gravitational interactions of dark matter. The complementarity among the different dark matter searches is discussed qualitatively and illustrated quantitatively in several theoretical scenarios. Our primary conclusion is that the diversity of possible dark matter candidates requires a balanced program based on all four of those approaches.
Download or read book Dark Matter in Astro and Particle Physics written by Hans-Volker Klapdor-Kleingrothaus and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-02-23 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TheFifthHEIDELBERGInternationalConferenceonDarkMatterinAst- and Particle Physics, DARK 2004, took place at Texas A&M University, College Station Texas, USA, October 3–9, 2004. It was, after Cape Town 2002, the second conference of this series held outside Germany. The earlier meetings, starting in 1996, were held in Heidelberg. Dark Matter is still one of the most exciting and central ?elds of ast- physics, particle physics and cosmology. The conference covered, as usual for this series, a large range of topics, theoretical and experimental. Theoretical talks covered SUSY/SUGRA phenomenology, which provides at present a preferred theoretical framework for the existence of cold dark matter. Also included were other possible explanations of dark matter such as SUSY Q balls, exciting New Symmetries, etc. The most important experiments in the underground search for cold and hot dark matter were presented. Talks describing the current experimental dark matter bounds, what might be obtained in the near future, and the reach of future large (i.e. one ton) detectors were given. The potential of future colliders to correlate accelerator physics with dark matter searches was also outlined. Thus the reader will be able to see the present status and future prospects in the search for dark matter. The exciting astronomical evidence for dark matter and corresponding observations concerning the Milky Way’s black hole, high-redshift clusters, wakes in dark matter halos were other important topics at the conference.
Download or read book Aspects of Dark Matter and Higgs Phenomenology written by Ralph Angelus Edezhath and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The existence of dark matter and the hierarchy problem motivates the search for new physics. The formulation of new search strategies and models is crucial in the hunt for physics beyond the Standard Model, and in this work we present three studies of new physics relevant for current and upcoming experiments. First, we study models that contain a singlet dark matter particle with cubic renormalizable couplings between standard model particles and `partner' particles with the same gauge quantum numbers as the standard model quark. The dark matter has spin 0, 1/2, or 1, and may or may not be its own antiparticle. Each model has 3 parameters: the masses of the dark matter and standard model partners, and the cubic coupling. Requiring the correct relic abundance gives a 2-dimensional parameter space where collider and direct detection constraints can be directly compared. We find that collider and direct detection searches are remarkably complementary for these models. Direct detection limits for the cases where the dark matter is not its own antiparticle require dark matter masses to be in the multi-TeV range, where they are extremely difficult to probe in collider experiments. The models where dark matter is its own antiparticle are strongly constrained by collider searches for monojet and jets + MET signals. These models are constrained by direct detection mainly near the limit where the dark matter and partner masses are nearly degenerate, where collider searches become more difficult. Second, we study the case where the singlet dark matter has trilinear couplings to leptons and a new ``lepton partner'' particle. The most sensitive collider probe is the search for leptons + MET, while the most sensitive direct detection channel is scattering from nuclei arising from loop diagrams. Collider and direct detection searches are highly complementary: colliders give the only meaningful constraint when dark matter is its own antiparticle, while direct detection is generally more sensitive if the dark matter is not its own antiparticle. Third, we study the constraints on new physics from Higgs production through vector boson fusion in the context of an effective field theory that preserves Standard Model gauge symmetries. We find that constraints on dimension-6 operators are significantly improved over those from the VBF signal strength by studying the Higgs transverse momentum distribution. Focusing on the O[subscript]HW operator, we find that boosted VBF decaying to photons yields constraints competitive with boosted WW production in the fully leptonic final state, and calculate projected limits for both at the 14 TeV LHC. The PT cuts required to maximize the reach of VBF searches are substantially softer, making the use of the effective field theory more robust than in the case of WW production which requires very high PT cuts to obtain similar limits.
Download or read book Heavy WIMP Effective Theory written by Mikhail P. Solon and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-02-22 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about dark matter’s particle nature and the implications of a new symmetry that appears when a hypothetical dark matter particle is heavy compared to known elementary particles. Dark matter exists and composes about 85% of the matter in the universe, but it cannot be explained in terms of the known elementary particles. Discovering dark matter's particle nature is one of the most pressing open problems in particle physics. This thesis derives the implications of a new symmetry that appears when the hypothetical dark matter particle is heavy compared to the known elementary particles, a situation which is well motivated by the null results of searches at the LHC and elsewhere. The new symmetry predicts a universal interaction between dark matter and ordinary matter, which in turn may be used to determine the event rate and detectable energy in dark matter direct detection experiments. The computation of heavy wino and higgsino dark matter presented in this work has become a benchmark for the field of direct detection. This thesis has also spawned a new field of investigation in dark matter indirect detection, determining heavy WIMP annihilation rates using effective field theory methods. It describes a new formalism for implementing Lorentz invariance constraints in nonrelativistic theories, with a surprising result at 1/M^4 order that contradicts the prevailing ansatz in the past 20 years of heavy quark literature. The author has also derived new perturbative QCD results to provide the definitive analysis of key Standard Model observables such as heavy quark scalar matrix elements of the nucleon. This is an influential thesis, with impacts in dark matter phenomenology, field theory formalism and precision hadronic physics.
Download or read book Phenomenology of Dark Matter Searches Simplified Models and Novel Model independent Approaches written by Sebastian Wild and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Physics of the Dark Photon written by Marco Fabbrichesi and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-11-23 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the dark photon which is a new gauge boson whose existence has been conjectured. Due to its interaction with the ordinary, visible photon, such a particle can be experimentally detected via specific signatures. In this book, the authors review the physics of the dark photon from the theoretical and experimental point of view. They discuss the difference between the massive and the massless case, highlighting how the two phenomena arise from the same vector portal between the dark and the visible sector. A review of the cosmological and astrophysical observations is provided, together with the connection to dark matter physics. Then, a perspective on current and future experimental limits on the parameters of the massless and massive dark photon is given, as well as the related bounds on milli-charged fermions. The book is intended for graduate students and young researchers who are embarking on dark photon research, and offers them a clear and up-to-date introduction to the subject.
Download or read book Phenomenology of Dark Matter Particles at the Centers of Galaxies written by Thomas Lacroix and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unveiling the nature of dark matter is one of the greatest challenges of modern physics, at the interface between astrophysics, cosmology and particle physics. In this thesis, I tackle various aspects of indirect searches for dark matter particles, which provide a complementary approach to direct detection or collider experiments. We are now entering into an era of instruments with outstanding capabilities, so it was timely to tackle the problem of the dark matter density profile at the centers of galaxies with novel methods, which motivated this thesis. Taking advantage of these technological advances, I investigate new ways of probing the very central part of dark matter halos, especially focusing on dark matter spikes, i.e. very strong enhancements of the dark matter density that can form around supermassive black holes. I show that we can go beyond standard dark matter searches by studying photon emission from electrons and positrons produced in dark matter annihilation processes. In this context, I describe a new cosmic-ray propagation technique to account for injection by spiky distributions at the centers of galaxies. I develop novel models of the diffuse emission in the central regions of galaxies, focusing not only on the center of the Milky Way, but on the central regions of other galaxies as well. This allows me to explain recently reported observations and make predictions for future observations.
