Aspects of WIMP Dark Matter Searches at Colliders and Other Probes
- Collana:
- Springer Theses
- EAN:
9783319884561
- ISBN:
3319884565
- Pagine:
- 232
- Formato:
- Paperback
- Lingua:
- Tedesco
Descrizione Aspects of WIMP Dark Matter Searches at Colliders and Other Probes
This thesis covers several theoretical aspects of WIMP (weakly interacting massive particles) dark matter searches, with a particular emphasis on colliders. It mainly focuses on the use of effective field theories as a tool for Large Hadron Collider (LHC) searches, discussing in detail the issue of their validity, and on simplified dark matter models, which are receiving a growing attention from the physics community. It highlights the theoretical consistency of simplified models, which is essential in order to correctly exploit their potential and for them to be a common reference when comparing results from different experiments. This thesis is of interest to researchers (both theorists and experimentalists) in the field of dark matter searches, and offers a comprehensive introduction to dark matter and to WIMP searches for students and non-experts.