Vector dark matter at the LHC
Abstract
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.
- Authors:
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- Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI (United States)
- Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (United States); Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1598667
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1227525
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0010504; FG02-13ER-41976; PHY-1250573
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review. D, Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 92; Journal Issue: 9; Journal ID: ISSN 1550-7998
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
Citation Formats
Kumar, Jason, Marfatia, Danny, and Yaylali, David. Vector dark matter at the LHC. United States: N. p., 2015.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.92.095027.
Kumar, Jason, Marfatia, Danny, & Yaylali, David. Vector dark matter at the LHC. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.92.095027
Kumar, Jason, Marfatia, Danny, and Yaylali, David. Mon .
"Vector dark matter at the LHC". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.92.095027. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1598667.
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title = {Vector dark matter at the LHC},
author = {Kumar, Jason and Marfatia, Danny and Yaylali, David},
abstractNote = {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.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevD.92.095027},
journal = {Physical Review. D, Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology},
number = 9,
volume = 92,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Nov 30 00:00:00 EST 2015},
month = {Mon Nov 30 00:00:00 EST 2015}
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