Speaker
Francesco Cirotto
(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
Description
The presence of a non-baryonic Dark Matter (DM) component in the Universe is
inferred from the observation of its gravitational interaction. If Dark Matter
interacts weakly with the Standard Model (SM) it could be produced at the LHC. The
ATLAS Collaboration has developed a broad search program for DM candidates in final
states with large missing transverse momentum produced in association with other SM
particles (light and heavy quarks, photons, Z and H bosons, as well as additional
heavy scalar particles) and searches where the Higgs boson provides a portal to Dark
Matter, leading to invisible Higgs decays. The results of recent searches on 13 TeV
pp data from the LHC, their interplay and interpretation will be presented.
Primary authors
Prof.
Carlo Dallapiccola
(Univ. of Massachusetts)
Francesco Cirotto
(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
