| 1. | Haipeng An, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics Monojet constraint on simplified models of dark matter September 19, 2013 (2:40 PM - 3:00 PM) PDF, 2.37 MB Z' papers: http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1202.2894 and http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1212.2221. |
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| 3. | Brian Batell, University of Chicago Searching for Light Dark Matter at Neutrino Factories September 21, 2013 (11:20 AM - 11:40 AM) PDF, 1.9 MB I will describe a new way to search for dark matter using an intense proton beam - target - detector setup, such as those used to study neutrino oscillations. This gives new motivation to experiments like MiniBooNE, MINOS, MicroBooNE, NOvA, LBNE and a future Project X facility. A specific proposal to perform the first search of this kind at the MiniBooNE experiment at Fermilab will be presented. |
| 4. | Matthew Buckley, Fermilab/Rutgers Dark Matter, New Electroweak Particles, and LHC Searches September 20, 2013 (11:55 AM - 12:15 PM) PDF, 5.61 MB If dark matter is a thermal relic of the early Universe, then we can expect additional new particles coupling to both dark matter and Standard Model fields. Of these, new un-colored electroweak particles are a common UV completion. I describe new search strategies using razor variables at the LHC which will improve our ability to detect such particles. |
| 5. | Marcela Carena, Fermilab/University of Chicago Light Dark Matter, Direct Detection and Searches at the LHC September 21, 2013 (11:40 AM - 12:00 PM) PDF, 12.04 MB |
| 6. | Spencer Chang, University of Oregon Effective WIMPs September 20, 2013 (9:30 AM - 9:50 AM) PDF, 12.86 MB The 'WIMP miracle' for the relic abundance of thermal dark matter motivates weak scale dark matter with renormalizable couplings to standard model particles. We study minimal models with such couplings that explain dark matter as a thermal relic. The models contain a singlet dark matter particle with cubic renormalizable couplings between standard model particles and 'partner' particles with the same gauge quantum numbers as the standard model particle. The dark matter has spin 0, 1/2, or 1, and may or may not be its own antiparticle. Each model has 3 parameters: the masses of the dark matter and standard model partners, and the cubic coupling. Requiring the correct relic abundance gives a 2-dimensional parameter space where collider and direct detection constraints can be directly compared. We focus on the case of dark matter interactions with colored particles. We find that collider and direct detection searches are remarkably complementary for these models. Direct detection limits for the cases where the dark matter is not its own antiparticle require dark matter masses to be in the multi-TeV range, where they are extremely difficult to probe in collider experiments. The models where dark matter is its own antiparticle are strongly constrained by collider searches for monojet and jets + MET signals. These models are constrained by direct detection mainly near the limit where the dark matter and partner masses are nearly degenerate, where collider searches become more difficult. |
| 7. | Alvaro Chavarria, Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics DAMIC and low mass WIMP searches September 19, 2013 (10:00 AM - 10:30 AM) PDF, 34.04 MB |
| 8. | Jing-Yuan Chen, University of Chicago Dark Matter Coupling to Electroweak Gauge and Higgs Bosons September 20, 2013 (4:20 PM - 4:40 PM) PDF, 0.63 MB If dark matter is a new species of particle produced in the early universe as a cold thermal relic (a weakly-interacting massive particle-WIMP), its present abundance, its scattering with matter in direct-detection experiments, its present-day annihilation signature in indirect-detection experiments, and its production and detection at colliders, depend crucially on the WIMP coupling to standard-model (SM) particles. It is usually assumed that the WIMP couples to the SM sector through its interactions with quarks and leptons. In this paper we explore the possibility that the WIMP coupling to the SM sector is via electroweak gauge and Higgs bosons. In the absence of an ultraviolet-complete particle-physics model, we employ effective field theory to describe the WIMP--SM coupling. We consider both scalars and Dirac fermions as possible dark-matter candidates. Starting with an exhaustive list of operators up to dimension 8, we present detailed calculation of dark-matter annihilations to all possible final states, including gamma gamma, gamma Z, gamma h, ZZ, Zh, W+ W-, hh, and f fbar, and demonstrate the correlations among them. We compute the mass scale of the effective field theory necessary to obtain the correct dark-matter mass density, and well as the resulting photon line signals. |
| 9. | Jordan Damgov, Texas Tech University Search for dark matter using mono photon events at CMS September 19, 2013 (11:40 AM - 12:00 PM) PDF, 2.48 MB |
| 10. | Andrea De Simone, CERN & SISSA On the validity of the EFT for DM searches at the LHC September 19, 2013 (2:00 PM - 2:20 PM) PDF, 3.59 MB I will dicuss the limitations to the use of the effective field theory approach to study dark matter at the LHC. I will introduce and study a few quantities, some of them independent from the UV completion of the DM theory, which quantify the error made when using the effective operators to describe processes with very high momentum transfer. |
| 11. | Michael A. Fedderke, University of Chicago Indirect constraints September 20, 2013 (4:40 PM - 5:00 PM) PDF, 15.45 MB |
| 12. | Johanna Gramling, University of Geneva Validity of EFT interpretation of LHC Monojet results September 19, 2013 (2:20 PM - 2:40 PM) PDF, 0.45 MB The interpretation of the Monojet analyses by ATLAS and CMS in terms of dark matter pair production raised some interest, since the limits could be easily compared to results from direct and indirect dark matter detection experiments via an effective field theory (EFT) description of the Standard Model-DM interaction. However, the validity of the EFT approach needs to be reviewed and evaluated, since LHC collisions can occur with very high momentum transfers, where the EFT description may not be accurate or reliable. A numerical study using MadGraph simulations, following an analytical approach outlined in arXiv:1307.2253v1, is presented. Event-by-event momentum transfer and cut-off scale are evaluated to estimate the fraction of events for which the EFT would be applicable. This tries to shed light on the question on how to present LHC limits on DM production and clearly state the limitations of the EFT interpretation used, and could be useful to quantify how much and in which regimes such limits can be trusted. |
| 13. | JoAnne L Hewett, SLAC/Stanford Bounds on Dark Matter with Electroweak Gauge Bosons September 20, 2013 (4:00 PM - 4:20 PM) PDF, 5.4 MB |
| 14. | Ahmed Ismail, ANL/UIC Dark Matter Complementarity in the pMSSM September 21, 2013 (9:30 AM - 9:50 AM) PDF, 2.57 MB The search for neutralino dark matter in SUSY requires a multi-pronged approach with important roles played by collider, direct and indirect dark matter detection experiments. I summarize the sensitivity of such searches at the LHC, combined with those by Fermi, CTA, IceCube/DeepCore, COUPP and XENON1T, to such particles within the context of the phenomenological MSSM. |
| 15. | Felix Kahlhoefer, University of Oxford Theoretical uncertainties in mono-jet searches September 19, 2013 (4:40 PM - 5:00 PM) I will discuss the theoretical uncertainties of the mono-jet signal prediction. A particular focus will be on the uncertainties related to scale ambiguities and how these can be reduced by including NLO corrections. In particular, I will present a new extension to the POWHEG BOX, which includes the effects of parton showering consistently at the NLO level. It turns out that these effects are large and significantly modify the results of a parton-level analysis. In this context, the details of the experimental cuts play a crucial role. I will provide simple K-factors which can be applied to existing experimental bounds to estimate the scale uncertainties for constraints on the interactions of dark matter. Finally, I will briefly discuss further uncertainties resulting from the choice of PDFs and the use of effective operators. |
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| 17. | Joseph Lykken, Fermilab Opening Overview Talk ~ ''Prospectus for the Discovery of Dark Matter at the LHC'' September 19, 2013 (9:30 AM - 10:00 AM) PDF, 12.31 MB |
| 18. | Sarah Malik, Rockefeller Search for dark matter using monojet events at CMS September 19, 2013 (11:00 AM - 11:20 AM) |
| 19. | Mario Martinez, ICREA/IFAE Barcelona ATLAS Monophoton results September 19, 2013 (12:00 PM - 12:20 PM) PDF, 9.78 MB The most recent results on monojet and monophoton final states from the ATLAS experiment at the LHC would be presented. |
| 20. | Klaas Padeken, RWTH Aachen Search for dark matter in the mono-lepton channel at the CMS September 20, 2013 (2:25 PM - 2:45 PM) PDF, 3.07 MB This presentation will show the results for a search for new physics in final states with an electron or a muon and a neutrino (CMS-PAS-EXO-13-004). The results are interpreted in terms of the cross section of a W-boson recoiling against a pair of dark matter particles in an effective theory. Such process would be visible in the detector as a lepton + MET final state. The dark matter model consideres two possible couplings, vector- and axial-vector like. They could couple to up- and down-type quarks with different strengths, parametrized by xi. Possible consequences on the signal cross section and shape are studied. The results are presented in terms of production cross section limits, which are transformed to limits on the effective parameter Lambda and M(DM)-proton cross sections as measured by the direct detection experiments. The limits derived on Lambda are Lambda<1000/700/300 GeV for xi=-1/0/+1, for both vector and axial-vector coupling. |
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| 22. | Christopher S Rogan, Harvard University Weakly-interacting particle kinematics at the LHC and the super-razor variables September 20, 2013 (11:30 AM - 11:50 AM) PDF, 7.54 MB |
| 23. | David Salek, GRAPPA, Amsterdam H->inv at Atlas and CMS September 19, 2013 (4:00 PM - 4:20 PM) PDF, 3.84 MB |
| 24. | Steven Schramm, University of Toronto Dark Matter searches in the mono-jet channel with the ATLAS Detector September 19, 2013 (11:20 AM - 11:40 AM) PDF, 3.34 MB |
| 25. | Gabriella Sciolla, Brandeis University collider searches for dark matter with heavy quarks September 20, 2013 (2:00 PM - 2:20 PM) PDF, 0.99 MB |
| 26. | Tim M.P. Tait, UC Irvine New Directions in EFTs for Dark Matter September 21, 2013 (12:00 PM - 12:30 PM) PDF, 7.71 MB I would discuss new directions in constructing EFTs and model sketches (simplified models) and the results of comparing them to data. |
| 27. | Sean Tulin, U Michigan Beyond collisionless dark matter: implications for astrophysics, direct detection, and colliders September 21, 2013 (9:55 AM - 10:15 AM) PDF, 2.07 MB There are long-standing hints from astrophysical observations that dark matter (DM) may not be collisionless, as is commonly assumed, but rather may possess a sizable cross section for scattering with other DM particles in halos. Within the framework of minimal ''simplified'' models for self-interacting dark matter (SIDM), I describe how a variety of complementary probes, from astrophysics to terrestrial experiments, can explore SIDM parameter space. |
| 28. | James Unwin, Notre Dame Dark matter searches at the LHC - The impact of heavy quark loops September 19, 2013 (4:20 PM - 4:40 PM) PDF, 1.23 MB If only tree-level processes are included in the analysis, LHC monojet searches give weak constraints on the dark matter-proton scattering cross section arising from the exchange of a new heavy scalar or pseudoscalar mediator with Yukawa-like couplings to quarks. I will discuss the constraints on these interactions from the CMS 5.0/fb and ATLAS 4.7/fb searches for jets with missing energy including the effects of heavy-quark loops. The inclusion of such contributions leads to a dramatic increase in the predicted cross section and therefore a significant improvement of the bounds from LHC searches. |
| 29. | Hao Zhang, UCSB, ANL, IIT Dark matter with t-channel mediator: a simple step beyond contact interaction September 20, 2013 (9:50 AM - 10:10 AM) PDF, 4.38 MB Effective contact operators provide the simplest parameterization for dark matter searches at the LHC. At the same time, light mediator can change the sensitivity and search strategies in important ways. Considering simple models of mediators is an important next step for collider searches. In this paper, we consider the case of a $t$-channel mediator. Its presence opens up new contributions to the monojet$+displaystyle{not{text{E}}}_T$ searches and can change the reach significantly. We also study the complementarity between monojet$+displaystyle{not{text{E}}}_T$ and direct pair production of the mediators. There is a large region of parameter space in which the monojet$+displaystyle{not{text{E}}}_T$ channel provides the stronger limit. We combine the reaches of LHC search and direct detection, and compare it with the requirement from thermal relic abundance. We find that in the Dirac fermion dark matter case, there is no region in the parameter space that reconciles the combined constraint of monojet$+displaystyle{not{text{E}}}_T$ search and direct detection with constraint from not over closing the universe; and in the Majorana fermion dark matter case, the mass of dark matter must be larger than about 200 GeV. If the relic abundance requirement are not satisfied within the simple model, discovery of dark matter at the LHC in monojet$+displaystyle{not{text{E}}}_T$ and di-jet $+displaystyle{not{text{E}}}_T$ channels predicts additional new physics. |
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