Prospects for collider searches for dark matter with heavy quarks

TL;DR

This paper projects future collider search capabilities for dark matter produced with heavy quarks, emphasizing improved analysis techniques over generic monojet searches for high-luminosity LHC and future colliders.

Contribution

It introduces a dedicated analysis for dark matter with heavy quarks, showing significant improvements over standard monojet methods at future colliders.

Findings

Enhanced sensitivity for dark matter detection with heavy quarks.

Projected limits for high-luminosity LHC and 33 TeV collider.

Effective scalar operator coupling constraints.

Abstract

We present projections for future collider searches for dark matter produced in association with bottom or top quarks. Such production channels give rise to final states with missing transverse energy and one or more b-jets. Limits are given assuming an effective scalar operator coupling dark matter to quarks, where the dedicated analysis discussed here improves significantly over a generic monojet analysis. We give updated results for an anticipated high-luminosity LHC run at 14 TeV and for a 33 TeV hadron collider.