Dark matter and the LHC

✍ Scribed by G. Bélanger

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 277 KB
• Volume: 194
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0920-5632
• DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2009.07.037

✦ Synopsis

Cosmological and astrophysical measurements indicate that the universe contains a large amount of dark matter. A number of weak scale dark matter candidates have been proposed in extensions of the standard model. The potential to discover the dark matter particle and determine its properties at the upcoming LHC is summarized.