The search for dark matter : from colliders to direct detection experiments
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This thesis is devoted to searches for dark matter at colliders and direct detection experiments. The first half of the work focuses on the Tevatron and LHC. Jets and missing energy searches at these colliders are sensitive to a broad class of models and dark matter candidates. I show that current jets plus missing energy analyses can miss signals for new physics, and suggest an alternative model-independent search strategy that broadens the reach of these experiments I also discuss searches for Higgs bosons that decay to light pseudoscalars. Information about the Higgs sector obtained through such searches may hint at the nature of the dark matter. The second half of the thesis turns to direct detection experiments, with a focus on inelastic dark matter. I discuss the prospects for discovering inelastic dark matter at upcoming experiments, and present two models with inelastically scattering dark matter. One of these models posits composite dark matter and has unique phenomenology that can be studied with directional detection experiments.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2010 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Lisanti, Mariangela |
|---|---|
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Physics |
| Primary advisor | Wacker, Jay |
| Thesis advisor | Wacker, Jay |
| Thesis advisor | Dimopoulos, Savas, 1952- |
| Thesis advisor | Peskin, Michael Edward, 1951- |
| Advisor | Dimopoulos, Savas, 1952- |
| Advisor | Peskin, Michael Edward, 1951- |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Mariangela Lisanti. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Physics. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2010. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2010 by Mariangela Lisanti
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
Also listed in
Loading usage metrics...