Vector dark matter at the LHC

Kumar, Jason; Marfatia, Danny; Yaylali, David

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.92.095027

Title: Vector dark matter at the LHC

Journal Article · Mon Nov 30 00:00:00 EST 2015 · Physical Review. D, Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.92.095027· OSTI ID:1598667

Kumar, Jason ^[1]; Marfatia, Danny ^[1]; Yaylali, David ^[2]

Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI (United States)
Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (United States); Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD (United States)

We consider monojet searches at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) for spin-1 dark matter that interacts with quarks through a contact operator. If the dark matter particles are produced with longitudinal polarizations, then the production matrix element is enhanced by factors of the energy. We show that this particularly effective search strategy can test models for which the energy suppression scale of the operator is as large as 10⁵ TeV. As such, these searches can probe a large class of models for which the contact-operator approximation is valid. We find that for contact operators that permit velocity-independent dark matter-nucleon scattering, LHC monojet searches for spin-1 dark matter are competitive with or far surpass direct-detection searches depending on whether the scattering is spin independent or spin dependent, respectively.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0010504; FG02-13ER-41976; PHY-1250573

OSTI ID:: 1598667

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1227525

Journal Information:: Physical Review. D, Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, Vol. 92, Issue 9; ISSN 1550-7998

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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