Supersymmetry and the collider Dark Matter picture

TL;DR

This paper reviews the latest collider search efforts for dark matter, emphasizing supersymmetric candidates, and discusses how collider experiments can help identify dark matter properties and underlying theories.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of current collider search strategies for supersymmetric dark matter at the LHC, highlighting recent experimental results and future prospects.

Findings

Collider searches have placed new constraints on supersymmetric dark matter models.

ATLAS and CMS experiments continue to explore a wide parameter space for supersymmetric particles.

No definitive dark matter detection has been made yet, but bounds are tightening.

Abstract

One of the key questions in particle physics and astrophysics is the nature of dark matter, which existence has been confirmed in many astrophysical and cosmological observations. Besides direct and indirect detection experiments, collider searches for dark matter offer the unique possibility to not only detect dark matter particles but in case of discovery to also study their properties by making statements about the potential underlying theory. The search program for dark matter at the ATLAS and CMS experiments at the Large Hadron Collider is comprehensive, and includes both supersymmetric dark matter candidates and other alternatives. This review presents the latest status in these searches, with special focus on supersymmetric dark matter particles.