Search for Dark Matter with ATLAS
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Search for Dark Matter with ATLAS

Using Events with a Highly Energetic Jet and Missing Transverse Momentum in Proton-Proton Collisions at √s = 8 TeV

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eBook - PDF

Search for Dark Matter with ATLAS

Using Events with a Highly Energetic Jet and Missing Transverse Momentum in Proton-Proton Collisions at √s = 8 TeV

About this book

This thesis describes in detail a search for weakly interacting massive particles as possible dark matter candidates, making use of so-called mono-jet events. It includes a detailed description of the run-1 system, important operational challenges, and the upgrade for run-2. The nature of dark matter, which accounts for roughly 25% of the energy-matter content of the universe, is one of the biggest open questions in fundamental science. The analysis is based on the full set of proton-proton collisions collected by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at ?s = 8 TeV. Special attention is given to the experimental challenges and analysis techniques, as well as the overall scientific context beyond particle physics. The results complement those of non-collider experiments and yield some of the strongest exclusion bounds on parameters of dark matter models by the end of the Large Hadron Collider run-1.

Details of the upgrade of the ATLAS Central Trigger for run-2 are also included.?
 

Information

Publisher
Springer
Year
2016
Print ISBN
9783319410449
eBook ISBN
9783319410456
Topic
Physical Sciences
Subtopic
Cosmology

Table of contents

  1. Supervisor’s Foreword
  2. Abstract
  3. Contents
  4. 1 Introduction
  5. Part I Theory and Motivation
  6. 2 The Standard Model of Particle Physics
  7. 3 Dark Matter
  8. 4 Proton-Proton Collisions
  9. 5 Mono-Jet Events as Dark Matter Signature at Colliders
  10. Part II Experimental Facilities
  11. 6 The Large Hadron Collider
  12. 7 The ATLAS Experiment
  13. Part III Operation and Upgrade of the Central Trigger
  14. 8 Operation of the Central Trigger During Run-I
  15. 9 Upgrade of the Central Trigger
  16. Part IV Analysis
  17. 10 Analysis Strategy
  18. 11 Data and Simulated Samples
  19. 12 Physics Objects Definitions
  20. 13 Event Selection
  21. 14 Background Estimation
  22. 15 Results and Interpretation
  23. 16 Prospects with Future LHC Data
  24. Part V Conclusion
  25. 17 Conclusion
  26. Appendix ASignal Simulation Samples
  27. Appendix BSignal Tables
  28. Curriculum Vitae

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