{
  "id": "1807.04240",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2018-07-11T16:45:31.000Z",
  "updated": "2018-07-11T16:45:31.000Z",
  "title": "Collider signatures for dark matter and long-lived particles with Pythia 8",
  "authors": [
    "Nishita Desai"
  ],
  "comment": "11 pages, 4 figures",
  "categories": [
    "hep-ph"
  ],
  "abstract": "We describe the implementation of four models for production of dark matter or as- sociated particles at the LHC based on the simplest extensions of the Standard Model. The first kind of models include dark matter production via s-channel mediators. This includes production in association with a jet for a vector boson (Z') or scalar (S) mediator as well as mono-higgs production via associated hZ' production. We implement the simplest t-channel mediator in the form of a scalar with leptonic quantum numbers and completely generic Yukawa couplings to the dark matter fermion and a right-handed SM lepton. Finally, we implement a generalised model of mixed dark matter where the dark matter is a mixture of an SU(2) singlet and N-plet. We find that the last two models are also ideally suited to study the production of a range of long-lived particle signatures. We illustrate this by reinterpreting the limits from CMS search for heavy charged particles for the t-channel case.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2018-07-11T16:45:31.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "collider signatures",
      "dark matter production",
      "dark matter fermion",
      "generic yukawa couplings",
      "simplest t-channel mediator"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 11,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}