Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2010-02-22
JHEP 1009:037,2010
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
11 pages, 7 figures
Scientific paper
10.1007/JHEP09(2010)037
Assuming that dark matter is a weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) species X produced in the early Universe as a cold thermal relic, we study the collider signal of pp or ppbar -> XXbar + jets and its distinguishability from standard-model background processes associated with jets and missing energy. We assume that the WIMP is the sole particle related to dark matter within reach of the LHC--a "maverick" particle--and that it couples to quarks through a higher dimensional contact interaction. We simulate the WIMP final-state signal XXbar + jet and dominant standard-model (SM) background processes and find that the dark-matter production process results in higher energies for the colored final state partons than do the standard-model background processes, resulting in more QCD radiation and a higher jet multiplicity. As a consequence, the detectable signature of maverick dark matter is an excess over standard-model expectations of events consisting of large missing transverse energy, together with large leading jet transverse momentum and scalar sum of the transverse momenta of the jets. Existing Tevatron data and forthcoming LHC data can constrain (or discover!) maverick dark matter.
Beltran Maria
Hooper Dan
Kolb Edward W.
Krusberg Zosia A. C.
Tait Tim M. P.
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