Search for Dark Matter with the Atlas Detector: Probing Final States of Missing Energy and an Energetic Jet or Top Quarks

by Johanna Gramling

Book Overview

This book discusses searches for Dark Matter at the CERN's LHC, the world's most powerful accelerator. It introduces the relevant theoretical framework and includes an in-depth discussion of the Effective Field Theory approach to Dark Matter production and its validity, as well as an overview of the formalism of Simplified Dark Matter models. Despite overwhelming astrophysical evidence for Dark Matter and numerous experimental efforts to detect it,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030069559
• ISBN13: 9783030069551
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"