Overview of searches for dark matter at the LHC

Abstract

Dark matter remains one of the most puzzling mysteries in Fundamental Physics of our times. Experiments at high-energy physics colliders are expected to shed light to its nature and determine its properties. This review talk focuses on recent searches for dark-matter signatures at the Large Hadron Collider, either within specific theoretical scenarios, such as supersymmetry, or in a model-independent scheme looking for mono-X events arising in WIMP-pair production.

Comments: 21 pages, 16 figures; Invited plenary talk in 14th Mexican Workshop on Particles and Fields (MWPF 2013), 25-29 Nov 2013, Oaxaca, Mexico; to appear in Journal of Physics Conference Series. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1310.1072