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Dark Matter is a hypothetical particle proposed to explain the missing matter expected from the cosmological observation. The motivation of Dark Matter is overwhelming however as it is mainly deduced from its gravitational interaction, for…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-02-04 Siew Yan Hoh , Jyothsna Komaragiri , Wan Ahmad Tajuddin Bin Wan Abdullah

A weakly interacting dark-matter particle may be difficult to discover at an accelerator because it either (1) is too massive, (2) has no standard-model gauge interactions, or (3) is almost degenerate with other states. In each of these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 James D. Wells

About 80 percent of the matter content of the universe is dark matter. However, the particle origin of dark matter is yet to be established. Many extensions of the Standard Model (SM) contain candidates of dark matter. The search for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-03-26 Bhaskar Dutta

The search for dark matter is one of the main science drivers of the particle and astroparticle physics communities. Determining the nature of dark matter will require a broad approach, with a range of experiments pursuing different…

Astrophysical observations provide compelling evidence for gravitationally interacting dark matter in the universe that cannot be explained by the standard model of particle physics. The extraordinary amount of data from the CERN LHC…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-04-08 CMS Collaboration

This review discusses both experimental and theoretical aspects of searches for dark matter at the LHC. An overview of the various experimental search channels is given, followed by a summary of the different theoretical approaches for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-03-07 Felix Kahlhoefer

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) provides data which give information on dark matter. In particular, measurements related to the Higgs sector lead to strong constraints on the invisible sector which are competitive with astrophysical limits.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-02-24 Maria Krawczyk , Malgorzata Matej , Dorota Sokolowska , Bogumila Swiezewska

This document summarises proposed searches for new physics accessible in the heavy-ion mode at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC), both through hadronic and ultraperipheral $\gamma\gamma$ interactions, and that have a competitive or,…

In these Lectures I review possible constraints on particle physics models, obtained by means of combining the results of collider measurements with astrophysical data. I emphasize the theoretical-model dependence of these results. I…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 Nikolaos E. Mavromatos

The Large Hadron electron Collider (LHeC) has been designed to push the field of deep inelastic scattering to the high energy and intensity frontier using an intense electron beam with a proton beam from the High Luminosity-Large Hadron…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-17 Guo-yuan Huang , Sudip Jana , Alvaro S. de Jesus , Farinaldo S. Queiroz , Werner Rodejohann

The prospects for detecting a candidate supersymmetric dark matter particle at the LHC are reviewed, and compared with the prospects for direct and indirect searches for astrophysical dark matter, on the basis of a frequentist analysis of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-02 John Ellis

Cosmological and astrophysical measurements indicate that the universe contains a large amount of dark matter. A number of weak scale dark matter candidates have been proposed in extensions of the standard model. The potential to discover…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-12-17 G. Bélanger

Understanding the fundamental nature and properties of dark matter is a main goal of fundamental physics experiments. The LHC experiments seek to detect processes that could explain how dark matter is produced and how it interacts with…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-04-24 Marta Felcini

The recent determination of the dark matter density in the Universe by the WMAP satellite has brought new attention to the interplay of results from particle physics experiments at accelerators and from cosmology. In this paper we discuss…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-02 Marco Battaglia , Ian Hinchliffe , Daniel Tovey

This brief summary targets feebly interacting massive particles, FIMPs, which are interesting candidates for dark matter. The cosmic history of FIMP dark matter often leads to predictions of long-lived mediator particles at laboratory…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-22 Susanne Westhoff

The paper contains description of the main properties of the galactic dark matter (DM) particles, available approaches for detection of DM, main features of direct DM detection, ways to estimate prospects for the DM detection, the first…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-21 Vadim A. Bednyakov

Both e+e- and {\mu}+{\mu}- colliders have been proposed as possible candidates for a lepton collider to complement and extend the reach of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. The physics program that could be pursued by a new lepton…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2017-08-01 Stephen D. Holmes , Vladimir D. Shiltsev

Experiments at electron-positron colliders can search for dark matter particle pair-production in association with a photon. We estimate the sensitivity of this search at the proposed International Linear Collider (ILC), under a variety of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-12 Yoonseok John Chae , Maxim Perelstein

Dark matter particles populating our galactic halo could be directly detected by measuring their scattering off target nuclei or electrons in a suitable detector. As this interaction is expected to occur with very low probability and would…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-06-14 Susana Cebrián

This proceeding presents searches for Dark Matter particles produced in association with top quarks at the LHC. The searches are performed by the ATLAS and CMS collaborations and various models and topologies are investigated. They are…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-01-12 Jeremy Andrea