Exotics Searches at ATLAS

TL;DR

This paper reviews recent ATLAS search results for physics beyond the Standard Model, especially focusing on dark matter, highlighting the experimental efforts to address fundamental questions like matter-antimatter asymmetry and dark matter.

Contribution

It summarizes recent experimental searches at ATLAS for new physics models, emphasizing dark matter detection efforts and their implications.

Findings

No significant signals of new physics found

Constraints placed on dark matter models

Advances in search techniques and analysis methods

Abstract

While the Standard Model of particle physics is a very successful theory and has been tested to hold with great precision in numerous experiments, it still leaves a number of open questions. Among those are the matter-antimatter asymmetry in the universe, the hierarchy problem and dark matter. Many models for new physics beyond the Standard Model provide solutions to one or several of these shortcomings of the Standard Model. In this article, a selected subset of recent ATLAS results from searches for such models is high-lighted, with a special focus on searches for Dark Matter.