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}
}
Comments
5 pages, 4 figures