Aspects of WIMP Dark Matter Searches at Colliders and Other Probes

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-319-67605-0
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 212 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 4734 g

Reihe: Springer Theses

Nominated as an outstanding PhD thesis by the University of Geneva, Switzerland
Gives a detailed overview of the present status of WIMP searches
Facilitates a fuller exploitation of the currently available discovery potential

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Morgante, Enrico

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Kosmologie, Urknalltheorie
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Quantenphysik Atom- und Molekülphysik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I: Introduction.- Generalities about Dark Matter.- Part II: Direct and Indirect WIMP Searches.- Direct Detection of Wimps.- Indirect Detection.- Focus on AMS-02 Anti-protons Results.- Part III: LHC Searches.- Dark Matter Searches at the LHC.- The EFT Approach and its Validity.- Simpli?ed Models.- Relic Density.-  Part IV: Complementary Searches in the Simpli?ed Model Framework.- A U(1)’ Gauge Mediator.- A 750 Gev Pseudo-scalar Mediator.- Conclusions.

Über Autor(innen)

Enrico Morgante graduated in Theoretical Physics at University of Pisa and Scuola Normale Superiore in 2012. He obtained his PhD in 2016 from University of Geneva, Switzerland. Since then, he has been part of the Theory department in DESY, Hamburg, as a post-doc.