# Simplified Models for Displaced Dark Matter Signatures

## TL;DR

This paper introduces a systematic approach to search for displaced dark matter signatures by extending simplified models to include displaced vertices, enhancing detection strategies at the LHC.

## Contribution

It proposes a novel framework that incorporates displaced vertices into dark matter simplified models, linking them to complete theories like SUSY and neutral naturalness.

## Key findings

- Models can be mapped onto gauge-mediated SUSY breaking and neutral naturalness.
- Displaced vertices offer background-free signatures ideal for high-luminosity LHC.
- Framework broadens the scope of dark matter searches with displaced signatures.

## Abstract

We propose a systematic programme to search for long-lived neutral particle signatures through a minimal set of displaced searches requiring significant missing transverse energy (dMETs). Our approach is to extend the well-established dark matter simplified models to include displaced vertices. The dark matter simplified models are used to describe the primary production vertex. A displaced secondary vertex, characterised by the mass of the long-lived particle and its lifetime, is added for the displaced signature. We show how these models can be motivated by, and mapped onto, complete models such as gauge-mediated SUSY breaking and models of neutral naturalness. We also outline how this approach may be used to extend other simplified models to incorporate displaced signatures and to characterise searches for long-lived charged particles. Displaced vertices are a striking signature with virtually no backgrounds from SM processes, and thus provide an excellent target for the high-luminosity run of the Large Hadron Collider. The proposed models and searches provide a first step towards a systematic broadening of the displaced dark matter search programme.