Speaker
James Frost
(University of Oxford)
Description
The astrophysical evidence for dark matter provides compelling argument for the existence of physics beyond the Standard Model. Collider experiments such as ATLAS offer the ability to search for dark matter at high energy scales and characterise its interactions, and provide complementarity probes to direct and indirect dark matter detection searches and dedicated low mass dark matter experiments. LHC Run 2 (2015-2018) provided a hugely sensitive dataset for a wide range of potential dark matter candidates and models at ATLAS, CMS and LHCb. An overview of these search results will be presented, before a brief outlook to the ongoing LHC Run-3 and prospects for the High-Luminosity LHC phase to start in 2030.
Author
James Frost
(University of Oxford)