June 30, 2014 to July 25, 2014
JGU Campus, Mainz
Europe/Berlin timezone

Emerging Jets From a Dark Sector

Jul 18, 2014, 3:30 PM
45m
MITP seminar room (JGU Campus, Mainz)

MITP seminar room

JGU Campus, Mainz

Speaker

Pedro Schwaller

Description

I will discuss a few reasons to go beyond minimal dark matter models, and some theoretical ideas that motivate us to consider a QCD-like dark sector. One characteristic signature of such dark sectors are "emerging jets" that can be reconstructed in the calorimeter but leave few hits in the inner trackers. We propose a new strategy to search for these emerging jets, using their "trackless" feature to discriminate from QCD background. Compared to ordinary multi-jet resonance searches, the sensitivity can be increased by four orders of magnitude or more.

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