IIHE invited seminar: Shedding light on Dark Matter at CMS
by
DrSarah Malik(Imperial College, London)
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Europe/Brussels
Universe
Universe
Description
There is strong evidence from cosmological observations that the dominant form of matter in the universe is dark matter. However, little is known about its nature. Reports of a possible dark matter signal from several direct detection experiments have further highlighted the need for independent verification from non-astrophysical experiments, such as colliders.
I will present the results of a search for dark matter performed using data collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC in proton proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 8 TeV. The search is performed using a monojet plus missing transverse energy signature. The results are interpreted within the framework of an effective field theory and used to place bounds on the dark matter-nucleon scattering cross-section which can be directly compared with those from the direct detection experiments.
