Authors: Choudhury, Arghya
Kowalska, Kamila
Roszkowski, Leszek
Sessolo, Enrico Maria
Williams, Andrew J.
Title: Blind spots for direct detection with simplified DM models and the LHC
Language (ISO): en
Abstract: Using the existing simplified model framework, we build several dark matter models which have suppressed spin-independent scattering cross section. We show that the scattering cross section can vanish due to interference effects with models obtained by simple combinations of simplified models. For weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) masses ≳10 GeV, collider limits are usually much weaker than the direct detection limits coming from LUX or XENON100. However, for our model combinations, LHC analyses are more competitive for some parts of the parameter space. The regions with direct detection blind spots can be strongly constrained from the complementary use of several Large Hadron Collider (LHC) searches like mono-jet, jets + missing transverse energy, heavy vector resonance searches, etc. We evaluate the strongest limits for combinations of scalar + vector, “squark” + vector, and scalar + “squark” mediator, and present the LHC 14 TeV projections.
Subject Headings: Dark matter
Simplified models
Direct detection
Blind spots
LHC
Subject Headings (RSWK): Dunkle Materie
Detektion
Toter Winkel
LHC
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2003/38491
http://dx.doi.org/10.17877/DE290R-20410
Issue Date: 2017-05-11
Rights link: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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