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Search for Dark Matter with ATLAS

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In this chapter, some essential background information for the interpretation of the data analysis presented in part IV is compiled. Section 3.1 gives a short introduction to cosmology, with more details on the derivation of the present abundance of a thermal relic in Sect. 3.2. In Sect. 3.3, some of the most striking evidence for the existence of dark matter is presented. Possible particle candidates are discussed in Sect. 3.4 and the status of the searches for generic weakly interacting massive particles is summarised in Sect. 3.5.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    m is assumed to be large enough for the particle to be non-relativistic.

  2. 2.

    Since the universe is expanding, the density has to be considered w.r.t. to the ‘expanding volume’.

  3. 3.

    Cosmic variance refers to the uncertainty due to the fact that the sample size for observations on the scale of the entire universe is naturally very limited, as there is only one universe to be observed [23].

  4. 4.

    Theory allows CP violation in the strong interaction, but it is not observed in experiments. For example, one consequence would be a large electric dipole moment of the neutron, which is however measured to be consistent with 0.

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