Status of CMS dark matter searches in 2011

TL;DR

This paper reviews the status of dark matter searches conducted by the CMS experiment at the LHC using 7 TeV proton-proton collision data from 2010-2011, reporting no deviations from the Standard Model and setting limits on new physics.

Contribution

It provides an overview of CMS dark matter search results from 2010-2011, including analysis methods and exclusion limits on various dark matter candidates.

Findings

No evidence of dark matter signals found.

Exclusion limits set on WIMPs, gravitinos, axinos, and TeV-scale particles.

Results are consistent with Standard Model predictions.

Abstract

We present the status of dark matter searches performed by the Compact Muon Solenoid Experiment using 7 TeV pp data collected by the CERN Large Hadron Collider in 2010 and 2011. The majority of the results shown here were obtained using 1.1 fb-1 of data. We give highlights from analyses searching for candidates such as WIMPs, gravitinos, axinos and TeV scale particles. All observations so far were found to be consistent with the Standard Model predictions. The search results were used to set exclusion limits on various new physics scenarios.