Simulations of dark matter production at the LHC.

Dark matter has remained one of the most fascinating mysteries in physics for nearly a century. One of the main hypotheses that seeks to explain its characteristic behavior is assuming that it is made of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs). This research evaluated how proton-proton collisions could produce dark matter at places like the LHC. MadGraph and Pythia were used to simulate collisions, and scripts were developed to analyze HepMC data, apply appropriate cuts, and graph the missing transverse energy (MET). Our simulations focused on scenarios in which MET was produced in conjunction with a single Z-boson. We varied coupling and mass parameters to identify regions of parameter space that are accessible in current experiments. These results can be applied and tested at the LHC, and it can be extended to experiments with muon collisions, which will be a future focus of our research due to the increasing interests in building a muon collider in the United States.