Speaker
Andrew Evans
(University of California Irvine)
Description
We propose a new method for discovering dark matter through the scattering of LHC protons off ambient dark matter. Over-dense populations of dark matter may accumulate near the Earth’s surface, for example in scenarios with strongly interacting dark matter. Protons circulating in the beam traverse this over-density and scatter dark matter particles forward along the beam direction, generating a flux of boosted dark matter toward forward detectors such as FASER, where it can rescatter and produce an observable signal. We show that this mechanism yields a striking signal, providing a novel collider signature of dark matter.
Authors
Andrew Evans
(University of California Irvine)
Jonathan Lee Feng
(University of California Irvine (US))
Dr
Toni Makela
(University of California, Irvine)