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Discovering Dark Matter Through Flavor Violation at the LHC

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2012-06-26 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We show that the discovery channel for dark matter (DM) production at colliders can be through flavor violating interactions resulting in a novel signature of a single top and large missing transverse energy. We discuss several examples where the production of DM is dominated by flavor violating couplings: minimal flavor violating models with a large bottom Yukawa, models with horizontal symmetries, and DM in nontrivial flavor group representations. Discovery at the 7 TeV LHC with a few fb^-1 may already be possible.

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@article{arxiv.1107.0623,
  title  = {Discovering Dark Matter Through Flavor Violation at the LHC},
  author = {Jernej F. Kamenik and Jure Zupan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1107.0623},
  year   = {2012}
}

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5 pages, 4 figures