Simplified Models for Dark Matter Interacting with Quarks

TL;DR

This paper explores simplified dark matter models with fermionic particles interacting with quarks through colored mediators, analyzing collider and direct detection constraints and forecasting future search prospects.

Contribution

It introduces a comprehensive analysis of collider and direct detection bounds on fermionic dark matter models with colored mediators, highlighting their complementarity.

Findings

Current collider and direct detection bounds constrain parameter space.

The interplay of collider and direct detection experiments provides a more complete picture.

Future searches could significantly narrow down viable models.

Abstract

We investigate simplified models in which dark matter particles, taken to be either Dirac or Majorana fermions, couple to quarks via colored mediators. We determine bounds from colliders and direct detection experiments, and show how the interplay of the two leads to a complementary view of this class of dark matter models. Forecasts for future searches in light of the current constraints are presented.