Dark Matter Benchmark Models for Early LHC Run-2 Searches: Report of the ATLAS/CMS Dark Matter Forum

TL;DR

This report presents a set of minimal dark matter models and benchmarks for early LHC Run-2 searches, including their parameter spaces, generator implementations, and EFT interpretation methods.

Contribution

It introduces a prioritized set of dark matter benchmark models and provides guidance on their application in collider searches.

Findings

Proposed a compact set of dark matter benchmark models.

Provided generator implementations and parameter space studies.

Discussed EFT formalism application for collider searches.

Abstract

This document is the final report of the ATLAS-CMS Dark Matter Forum, a forum organized by the ATLAS and CMS collaborations with the participation of experts on theories of Dark Matter, to select a minimal basis set of dark matter simplified models that should support the design of the early LHC Run-2 searches. A prioritized, compact set of benchmark models is proposed, accompanied by studies of the parameter space of these models and a repository of generator implementations. This report also addresses how to apply the Effective Field Theory formalism for collider searches and present the results of such interpretations.