CERN Accelerating science

ATLAS Slides
Report number	ATL-PHYS-SLIDE-2017-900
Title	Dark matter searches with the ATLAS detector
Author(s)	Whalen, Kathleen (University of Oregon)
Corporate author(s)	The ATLAS collaboration
Collaboration	ATLAS Collaboration
Submitted to	The 3rd International Conference on Particle Physics and Astrophysics, Moscow, Russia, 2 - 5 Oct 2017
Submitted by	[email protected] on 09 Oct 2017
Subject category	Particle Physics - Experiment
Accelerator/Facility, Experiment	CERN LHC ; ATLAS
Free keywords	EXOTICS
Abstract	The presence of a non-baryonic dark matter component in the Universe is inferred from the observation of its gravitational interaction. If dark matter interacts weakly with the Standard Model it would be produced at the LHC, escaping the detector and leaving a large missing transverse momentum as its signature. The ATLAS detector has developed a broad and systematic search program for dark matter production in LHC collisions. The results of these searches using the first 13 TeV data, their interpretation, and the design and possible evolution of the search program will be presented.