Probing 23{\%} of the Universe at the Large Hadron Collider

ORAL

Abstract

With recent astronomical measurements, we know that 23{\%} of the Universe is accounted by a mysterious dark matter. The results have constrained the parameter space of supersymmtery (SUSY), which is a leading theory that could connect cosmology and particle physics and offers an explanation of the dark matter. A characteristic prediction from the parameter space is that the supersymmetric tau lepton and the lightest neutralino are nearly mass degenerate (mass difference of $\sim $ 5-15 GeV) and can be created at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). We present a methodology to extracting the dark matter signals at the LHC, and show the accuracy to which we can measure the dark matter relic density and the SUSY parameters.

Authors

  • Alfredo Gurrola

    Texas A\&M University

  • Richard Arnowitt

    Texas A\&M University

  • Bhaskar Dutta

    Texas A&M University, Texas A\&M University

  • Teruki Kamon

    Texas A\&M University

  • Abram Krislock

    Texas A\&M University

  • Dave Toback

    Texas A\&M University