Dark Matter Searches at Accelerator Facilities

Abstract

About 80 percent of the matter content of the universe is dark matter. However, the particle origin of dark matter is yet to be established. Many extensions of the Standard Model (SM) contain candidates of dark matter. The search for the particle origin is currently ongoing at the large hadron collider (LHC). In this review, I will summarize the different search strategies for this elusive particle.

Comments: 26 pages, 15 figures, Plenary talk at the Symposium on Cosmology and Particle Astrophysics 2013 Honolulu, HI, November 12- 15, 2013