Search for new phenomena in monophoton final states in proton–proton collisions at s=8 TeV

doi:10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2016.01.057

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This article is published in Physics Letters B.The article was published on 2016-04-10 and is currently open access. It has received 87 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Missing energy & Tevatron.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an overview of scenarios where the observed dark matter (DM) abundance consists of Feebly Interacting Massive Particles (FIMPs), produced nonthermally by the so-called freeze-in mechanism.

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TL;DR: The Gelfant 4 toolkit as discussed by the authors is a toolkit for simulating the passage of particles through matter, including a complete range of functionality including tracking, geometry, physics models and hits.

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TL;DR: MadGraph5 aMC@NLO as discussed by the authors is a computer program capable of handling all these computations, including parton-level fixed order, shower-matched, merged, in a unified framework whose defining features are flexibility, high level of parallelisation and human intervention limited to input physics quantities.

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TL;DR: The Pythia program as mentioned in this paper can be used to generate high-energy-physics ''events'' (i.e. sets of outgoing particles produced in the interactions between two incoming particles).

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TL;DR: GeGeant4 as mentioned in this paper is a software toolkit for the simulation of the passage of particles through matter, it is used by a large number of experiments and projects in a variety of application domains, including high energy physics, astrophysics and space science, medical physics and radiation protection.

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Search for new phenomena in monophoton final states in proton–proton collisions at s=8 TeV

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The dawn of FIMP Dark Matter : A review of models and constraints

WIMP dark matter candidates and searches—current status and future prospects

WIMP dark matter candidates and searches - current issues and future prospects

Fundamental physics with the Square Kilometre Array

Dark Matter Benchmark Models for Early LHC Run-2 Searches. Report of the ATLAS/CMS Dark Matter Forum

References

Geant4—a simulation toolkit

Geant4 - A Simulation Toolkit

The automated computation of tree-level and next-to-leading order differential cross sections, and their matching to parton shower simulations

PYTHIA 6.4 Physics and Manual

Geant4 developments and applications

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