Simplified dark matter models have been recently advocated as a powerful tool to exploit the complementarity between dark matter direct detection, indirect detection and LHC experimental probes. Focusing on pseudoscalar mediators between the dark and visible sectors, we show that the simplified dark matter model phenomenology departs significantly from that of consistent SU(2)L×U(1)Y gauge invariant completions. We discuss the key physics simplified models fail to capture, and its impact on LHC searches. Notably, we show that resonant mono-Z searches provide competitive sensitivities to standard mono-jet analyses at 13 TeV LHC.
@article{arxiv.1611.04593,
title = {Simplified Models for Dark Matter Face their Consistent Completions},
author = {Dorival Goncalves and Pedro A. N. Machado and Jose Miguel No},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.04593},
year = {2017}
}