EF10: BSM: Dark Matter at colliders

• co-Conveners: Caterina Doglioni, LianTao Wang, Antonio Boveia
  • You can also email us using this link, or write to caterina.doglioni[at]hep.lu.se and liantaow[at]uchicago.edu .
• Email list: SNOWMASS-EF-10-DARK_MATTER@FNAL.GOV
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• Slack channel: ef10-dark_matter
• Expression of interest form.

Description

This topical group focuses on Dark Matter and Dark Sector searches at high energy colliders. We will also address the complementarity between the collider searches and other probes of dark matter. This page collects information on the topics under consideration, activity organization, and other useful details. The content of this page will evolve based on input from the community.

Topics

The studies will focus on the following benchmark scenarios.

• Testing WIMP models: electroweak multiplet, vector and scalar mediator simplified models, and Higgs portal
• Testing models targeting different DM masses and couplings with respect to the WIMP, as well as portals through dark photon and generic dark scalar/pseudoscalar.

This is an evolving list, we are open to new ideas from the community.

We will consider the sensitivities of HL-LHC and proposed future colliders including CLIC, FCC(ee, hh, eh), CEPC, SppC, ILC, and muon colliders studied in the Accelerator Frontier. The collider signals we will consider and discuss in EF10 are primarily missing transverse momentum signatures, but we will also consider the DM interpretation of searches for visible decays of the mediators, rare decay of H/Z/top/mesons, and other non-standard signatures. We will also consider projections from experiments near/at colliders, such as FASER/CODEX-b/Mathusla, etc, in collaboration with the Rare Processes and Precision Frontier. We will also consider complementarity with direct detection (Underground Facilities), indirect detection and astrophysical probes of dark matter (CF1, CF2, CF3), cosmological observations), fixed target (RF6). We also aim to include new ideas of dark matter (theory, CFX)

Common EF activities with EF10 summaries

• EF kick-off workshop - May 21st: agenda
• EF workshop - July 20th-22nd agenda

References

• Physics Briefing Book by the European Strategy for Particle Physics Preparatory Group.

Activities

• Kick off meeting, May 14th - Notes and transcript
• Introductory meeting on Wino/Higgsino models, June 4th Notes and transcript
• Introductory meeting on DM simplified models, June 18th Notes and transcript
• Follow-up meeting on Wino/Higgsino models, July 2nd.
• EF Workshop preparatory meeting, July 7th-8th
• Kick-off workshop on dark sector models (joint with other EF/AF/RF groups), July 15th-16th Notes and transcript
• EF Workshop, July 20th-22nd
  • Parallel sessions of Energy Frontier workshop: discussions on LLP, forward physics and BSM, simplified models, naturalness Notes and transcript
• Meeting on dark showers, joint with EF09, August 13th Notes and transcript
• Coming up:
  • August 27 - No meeting but “LOI drop-in”: email the conveners if you’d like to discuss your LOI submission
  • September 10th - topic TBC

Submitted LOI

Letters of Intent submitted to Energy Frontier (as primary frontier) shown in this link. Here is the list of submitted LOIs that include EF as primary or secondary topic. First index before “/” corresponds to the primary frontier used for the submission.