Mono-everything: Combined limits on dark matter production at colliders from multiple final states

D. Berge, D. Whiteson

Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D, Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology · 2013 · 43 citations · 22 references

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Searches for dark matter production at particle colliders are complementary to direct-detection and indirect-detection experiments and especially powerful for small masses, ${m}_{\ensuremath{\chi}}<100\text{ }\text{ }\mathrm{GeV}$. An important collider dark matter signature is due to the production of a pair of these invisible particles with the initial-state radiation of a standard model particle. Currently, collider searches use individual and nearly orthogonal final states to search for initial-state jets, photons or massive gauge bosons. We combine these results across final states and across experiments to give the strongest current collider-based limits in the context of effective field theories and map these to limits on dark matter interactions with nuclei and to dark matter self-annhiliation.

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