Investigating Dark Matter in Semi-Visible Jets at CERN

Funder	Science and Technology Facilities Council
Recipient Organization	Queen Mary University of London
Country	United Kingdom
Start Date	Jan 02, 2024
End Date	Jan 02, 2028
Duration	1,461 days
Number of Grantees	2
Roles	Student; Supervisor
Data Source	UKRI Gateway to Research
Grant ID	`2907986`

Grant Description

Dark matter represents one of the main mysteries in our current understanding of the universe and its nature is completely unknown. Dark matter could be made of particles and could be generated in the Large Hadron Collider collisions.

This project focuses on models of a QCD-like dark sector which would generate unconventional signatures in LHC collisions.

In some cases, the dark particles can decay as soon as they are produced in the collisions in a mixture of lighter dark (invisible) particles and SM particles generating semi-visible jets.