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Constraints on Light Majorana Dark Matter from Colliders

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-03-17 v4 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We explore model-independent collider constraints on light Majorana dark matter particles. We find that colliders provide a complementary probe of WIMPs to direct detection, and give the strongest current constraints on light DM particles. Collider experiments can access interactions not probed by direct detection searches, and outperform direct detection experiments by about an order of magnitude for certain operators in a large part of parameter space. For operators which are suppresssed at low momentum transfer, collider searches have already placed constraints on such operators limiting their use as an explanation for DAMA.

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@article{arxiv.1005.1286,
  title  = {Constraints on Light Majorana Dark Matter from Colliders},
  author = {Jessica Goodman and Masahiro Ibe and Arvind Rajaraman and William Shepherd and Tim M. P. Tait and Hai-Bo Yu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1005.1286},
  year   = {2015}
}

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4 pages, 6 figures

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