Complementarity between collider, direct detection, and indirect detection experiments

TL;DR

This paper analyzes how planned collider, direct, and indirect detection experiments complement each other in exploring the 19-parameter pMSSM, highlighting the importance of combined efforts to fully probe supersymmetric dark matter.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive assessment of the complementarity between various dark matter search techniques within the pMSSM framework, emphasizing the need for advances in each method.

Findings

Different search techniques explore orthogonal regions of parameter space.

Sensitivity depends strongly on WIMP mass and annihilation mechanisms.

Full exploration requires progress in all detection methods.

Abstract

We examine the capabilities of planned direct detection, indirect detection, and collider experiments in exploring the 19-parameter p(henomenological)MSSM, focusing on the complementarity between the different search techniques. In particular, we consider dark matter searches at the 7, 8 (and eventually 14) TeV LHC, \Fermi, CTA, IceCube/DeepCore, and LZ. We see that the search sensitivities depend strongly on the WIMP mass and annihilation mechanism, with the result that different search techniques explore orthogonal territory. We also show that advances in each technique are necessary to fully explore the space of Supersymmetric WIMPs.