- Nominated as an outstanding PhD thesis by the ATLAS collaboration at CERN First complete evaluation of the validity of Dark Matter Effective Field Theories at the LHC energy scale Full coverage of ATLAS methods for deriving jet energy scale uncertainties
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This thesis describes the search for Dark Matter at the LHC in the mono-jet plus missing transverse momentum final state, using the full dataset recorded in 2012 by the ATLAS Experiment. It is the first time that the number of jets is not explicitly restricted to one or two, thus increasing the sensitivity to new signals. Instead, a balance between the most energetic jet and the missing transverse momentum is required, thus selecting mono-jet-like final states. Collider searches for Dark Matter have typically used signal models employing effective field theories (EFTs), even when comparing to results from direct and indirect detection experiments, where the difference in energy scale renders many such comparisons invalid. The thesis features the first robust and comprehensive treatment of the validity of EFTs in collider searches, and provides a means by which the different classifications of Dark Matter experiments can be compared on a sound and fair basis.
- Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Introduction and Motivation for Dark Matter
Pages 1-26
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The ATLAS Experiment
Pages 27-54
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ATLAS Reconstruction and Performance
Pages 55-69
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Jet Reconstruction and Performance
Pages 71-126
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Jet Uncertainties
Pages 127-166
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Searching for Dark Matter with the ATLAS Detector
- Authors
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- Steven Schramm
- Series Title
- Springer Theses
- Copyright
- 2017
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer International Publishing Switzerland
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-44453-6
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-44453-6
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-44452-9
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-83056-8
- Series ISSN
- 2190-5053
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XXIII, 324
- Number of Illustrations
- 10 b/w illustrations, 135 illustrations in colour
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