https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-6945-7
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Dark matter pair production in the MSSM and in simplified dark matter models at the LHC
Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Tübingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 14, 72076, Tübingen, Germany
* e-mail: christoph.borschensky@uni-tuebingen.de
Received:
1
March
2019
Accepted:
11
May
2019
Published online:
20
May
2019
We study the quantitative features of dark matter pair production at the LHC in simplified dark matter models and in the MSSM taking next-to-leading order QCD corrections and parton-shower effects fully into account. Among the large space of dark matter models, we focus on two particular models where a fermionic dark matter candidate interacts with the Standard Model via the exchange of either a vector mediator in the s-channel or coloured scalar mediators in the t-channel. We find that the simplified models are capable of reproducing the predictions of the MSSM to some extent in simplified supersymmetric scenarios, but lack the complexity to describe the complete theory over the full supersymmetric parameter space.
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