# Impact of a XENONnT Signal on LHC Dijet Searches

## TL;DR

This paper explores how a potential dark matter detection at XENONnT would influence current and future dijet searches at the LHC, revealing significant impacts on exclusion limits and discovery prospects within simplified models.

## Contribution

It provides a detailed analysis of the interplay between XENONnT signals and LHC dijet search sensitivities in various simplified dark matter models.

## Key findings

- XENONnT signals can significantly tighten LHC dijet exclusion limits.
- A few hundred XENONnT events can reduce the discovery region at HL-LHC.
- Dijet search prospects are highly sensitive to potential XENONnT signals.

## Abstract

It is well-known that dark matter (DM) direct detection experiments and the LHC are complementary, since they probe physical processes occurring at different energy scales. And yet, there are aspects of this complementarity which are still not fully understood, or exploited. For example, what is the impact that the discovery of DM at XENONnT would have on present and future searches for DM in LHC final states involving a pair of hadronic jets? In this work we investigate the impact of a XENONnT signal on the interpretation of current dijet searches at the LHC, and on the prospects for dijet signal discovery at the High-Luminosity (HL) LHC in the framework of simplified models. Specifically, we focus on a general class of simplified models where DM can have spin 0, 1/2 or 1, and interacts with quarks through the exchange of a scalar, pseudo-scalar, vector, or pseudo-vector mediator. We find that exclusion limits on the mediator's mass and its coupling to quarks from dijet searches at the LHC are significantly affected by a signal at XENONnT, and that $\mathcal{O}(100)$ signal events at XENONnT would drastically narrow the region in the parameter space of simplified models where a dijet signal can be discovered at $5\sigma$ C.L. at the HL-LHC.