Dark matter and the LHC

Abstract

Cosmological and astrophysical measurements indicate that the universe contains a large amount of dark matter. A number of weak scale dark matter candidates have been proposed in extensions of the standard model. The potential to discover the dark matter particle and determine its properties at the upcoming LHC is summarized.

Comments: 6 pages, 4 figures, Talk at Dark matter and dark energy, GGI, Florence, Italy, March 2009