"The importance of heavy quark loops for dark matter searches"

ABSTRACT:

The latest results from LHC searches for jets in association with missing transverse energy place strong bounds on the interactions of dark matter with Standard Model particles. In my talk, I will discuss how to convert these results into constraints on the dark matter direct detection cross section using effective operators. Because of the large separation of scales, however, a naive translation of limits often gives incorrect answers. I will therefore discuss the importance of loop-corrections both for spin-independent interactions and spin-dependent interactions as well as for processes relevant for dark matter indirect detection.