Collider Searches for Dark Matter through the Higgs Lens
Abstract
Despite the fact that dark matter constitutes one of the cornerstones of the standard cosmological paradigm, its existence has so far only been inferred from astronomical observations and its microscopic nature remains elusive. Theoretical arguments suggest that dark matter might be connected to the symmetry-breaking mechanism of the electroweak interactions or of other symmetries extending the Standard Model of particle physics. The resulting Higgs bosons, including the spin-0 particle discovered recently at the Large Hadron Collider therefore represent a unique tool to search for dark matter candidates at collider experiments. This article reviews some of the relevant theoretical models as well as the results from the searches for dark matter in signatures that involve a Higgs-like particle at the Large Hadron Collider.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.2109.13597,
title = {Collider Searches for Dark Matter through the Higgs Lens},
author = {Spyros Argyropoulos and Oleg Brandt and Ulrich Haisch},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.13597},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
58 pages, 26 figures, 1 table; v4: relic density constraints in figure 3 corrected; thanks to Ennio Salvioni for spotting the mistake