2018/05/31 by Chiara Arina
Physics and Astronomy · #Collider #Context (archaeology) #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #Dark energy #Dark matter #Large Hadron Collider #Particle Detector Development and Performance #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Scalar field dark matter #Weakly interacting massive particles #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.3389/fspas.2018.00030
48 pages, 12 figures, 2 tables. Invited review for the Research Topic 'From the Fermi scale to Cosmology' in Frontiers. Minor revisions to match the published version
openalex created_date 2018/05/17 · openalex publication_date 2018/09/11 · arxiv created 2018/10/19 · arxiv updated 2018/10/22 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/06
Studies of dark matter models lie at the interface of astrophysics, cosmology, nuclear physics and collider physics. Constraining such models entails the capability to compare their predictions to a wide range of observations. In this review, we present the impact of global constraints to a specific class of models, called dark matter simplified models. These models have been adopted in the context of collider studies to classify the possible signatures due to dark matter production, with a reduced number of free parameters. We classify the models that have been analysed so far and for each of them we review in detail the complementarity of relic density, direct and indirect searches with respect to the LHC searches. We also discuss the capabilities of each type of search to identify regions where individual approaches to dark matter detection are the most relevant to constrain the model parameter space. Finally we provide a critical overview on the validity of the dark matter simplified models and discuss the caveats for the interpretation of the experimental results extracted for these models.