Shedding light on Dark Matter from accelerator physics

by Bryan Zaldivar

Friday 11 Nov 2011, 14:00 → 15:00 Europe/Berlin

3344 (Physikdepartment)

This talk is about the nature of the couplings of dark matter to the visible sector. It turns out that one can use recent data by LEP, Tevatron or even LHC, when studying a signal of mono-photon (mono-jet) plus missing energy, in combination with constraints coming from WMAP and XENON100, in order to constrain the couplings of dark matter, at least in a model independent, effective approach. In the most conservative case, the result is having a relatively light dark matter with strongly hadrophobic couplings.