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Searches for Dark Matter production at the LHC
Oliver Buchmüller (Imperial College London)
Seminar room 3, 15:00
The standard model (SM) of elementary particles and their interactions has provided a remarkably accurate description of all experiments in particle physics. The most popular and by far best understood extension of the SM is the framework of supersymmetry (SUSY).
SUSY is built around a Higgs sector and provides possible solutions to several theoretical problems of the SM (e.g. the hierarchy problem). It is also a prime candidate to explain the amount of Dark Matter observed in our Universe. “Missing energy" searches are used to probe Dark Matter production in proton-proton collisions at the LHC. I will present an overview of missing energy searches at colliders and direct dark matter detection experiments and discuss the complementarity of the two approaches.
