Search for Dark Matter with the ATLAS Detector Probing Final States of Missing Energy and an Energetic Jet or Top Quarks /

• Main Author: Gramling, Johanna (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Springer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research,
• Subjects: Nuclear physics.; Cosmology.; Particle and Nuclear Physics.

This book discusses searches for Dark Matter at the CERN's LHC, the world's most powerful accelerator. It introduces the relevant theoretical framework and includes an in-depth discussion of the Effective Field Theory approach to Dark Matter production and its validity, as well as an overv...

Table of Contents:

• The Standard Model
• Dark Matter
• Supersymmetry
• The ATLAS Detector at the LHC
• Validity of Effective Field Theory Dark Matter Models at the LHC
• Search for Dark Matter in Monojet-like Events
• Constraints on Simplified Dark Matter Models from Mono-X Searches
• Search for New Physics in Events with Missing Energy and Top Quarks
• Conclusions.