Searches for dark matter signals in simplified models at future hadron colliders

Abstract

We study the prospect of dark matter (DM) searches in the monojet channel at future pp colliders with center-of-mass energies of 33, 50, and 100 TeV. We consider a class of simplified models in which a vector boson connecting DM particles to quarks is introduced. Comparing with studies in the effective field theory, the present framework gives more reasonable production rates and kinematics of the DM signatures. We estimate the sensitivities of future colliders with an integrated luminosity of 3 ab −1 to the DM-induced monojet signature and show the parameter space that can be explored. The constraints from direct and indirect DM detection experiments are compared with the future collider sensitivities. We find that the future collider detection will be much more sensitive than the indirect detection for the vector interaction, and have better sensitivities than those of the direct detection by several orders of magnitude for the axial vector interaction. PACS numbers: 95.35.+d,

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