Document Type
Article
Date
7-14-2008
Language
English
Disciplines
Physics
Description/Abstract
We review what can (and cannot) be learned if dark matter is detected in one or more experiments, emphasizing the importance of combining LHC data with direct, astrophysical and cosmological probes of dark matter. We briefly review the conventional picture of a thermally produced WIMP relic density and its connection with theories of electroweak symmetry breaking. We then discuss both experimental and theoretical reasons why one might generically expect this picture to fail. If this is the case, we argue that a combined effort bringing together all types of data -- combined with explicitly constructed theoretical models -- will be the only way to achieve a complete understanding of the dark matter in our universe and become confident that any candidate actually provides the relic density.
Recommended Citation
Watson, Scott and Kane, Gordon, "Dark Matter and LHC: What is the Connection?" (2008). Physics - All Scholarship. 406.
https://surface.syr.edu/phy/406
Source
Harvested from Arxiv.org
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Additional Information
25 pages, 2 figures, Invited review for Modern Physics Letters A More informaton at http://arxiv.org/abs/0807.2244