REALDARK

REAL-time discovery strategies for DARK matter and dark sector signals at the ATLAS detector with Run-3 LHC data

Grant period2021-11-01 - 2026-10-31
Funding bodyEuropean Union
Call numberERC-2020-COG
Grant number101002463
IdentifierG:(EU-Grant)101002463

Note: The Standard Model of Particle Physics (SM) describes the fundamental particles and interactions of ordinary matter. Despite the SM's success in predicting experimental results, it fails to account for the large abundance of dark matter in the Universe. Dark Matter (DM) particles could be created from collisions of SM particles, such as in the Large Hadron Collider, but storage and computing limitations mean that rare processes involving DM may be missed by current data-taking methods. In REALDARK, I will consolidate my leadership in DM searches with innovative data-taking techniques in order to solve these problem for the ATLAS experiment. The technical innovations from this proposal will be widely disseminated, paving the way to advancements for future experiments. Under my leadership, the REALDARK team will break the traditional paradigm of recording detector data and then analyzing it in separate steps, by deploying data processing in real-time so that far more collision data can be searched for rare processes. We will enable new types of datasets from the upcoming LHC data-taking period and search them for new phenomena, motivated by theories of weakly interacting massive DM particle candidates and by "dark" sectors inaccessible to ordinary particles. The proposed searches will yield either a discovery of dark matter candidates, to be studied in connection with astrophysical observations, or world-leading constraints on the particle nature of dark matter, focusing theoretical efforts and search targets for future experiments.
   

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Configuration, Performance, and Commissioning of the ATLAS b-jet Triggers for the 2022 and 2023 LHC data-taking periods
Journal of Instrumentation 20(03), P03002 () [10.1088/1748-0221/20/03/P03002]  GO OpenAccess  Download fulltext Files  Download fulltextFulltext by arXiv.org BibTeX | EndNote: XML, Text | RIS

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Search for heavy neutral leptons in decays of W bosons using leptonic and semi-leptonic displaced vertices in $ \sqrt{s} $ = 13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector
Journal of high energy physics 07(7), 196 () [10.1007/JHEP07(2025)196]  GO OpenAccess  Download fulltext Files  Download fulltextFulltext by arXiv.org BibTeX | EndNote: XML, Text | RIS

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Search for a new pseudoscalar decaying into a pair of bottom and antibottom quarks in top-associated production in $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV proton–proton collisions with the ATLAS detector
The European physical journal / C 85(8), 886 () [10.1140/epjc/s10052-025-14507-0]  GO OpenAccess  Download fulltext Files  Download fulltextFulltext by arXiv.org BibTeX | EndNote: XML, Text | RIS

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Searches for direct slepton production in the compressed-mass corridor in $ \sqrt{\textrm{s}} $ = 13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector
Journal of high energy physics 08(8), 53 () [10.1007/JHEP08(2025)053]  GO DBCoverage  Download fulltext Files  Download fulltextFulltext by arXiv.org BibTeX | EndNote: XML, Text | RIS

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Measurements of the production cross-sections of a Higgs boson in association with a vector boson and decaying into WW$^{*}$ with the ATLAS detector at $ \sqrt{s} $ = 13 TeV
Journal of high energy physics 08(8), 34 () [10.1007/JHEP08(2025)034]  GO DBCoverage  Download fulltext Files  Download fulltextFulltext by arXiv.org BibTeX | EndNote: XML, Text | RIS

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Constraint on the total width of the Higgs boson from Higgs boson and four-top-quark measurements in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector
Physics letters / B 861, 139277 () [10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139277]  GO OpenAccess  Download fulltext Files  Download fulltextFulltext by arXiv.org BibTeX | EndNote: XML, Text | RIS

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Search for new physics in final states with semivisible jets or anomalous signatures using the ATLAS detector
Physical review / D 112(1), 012021 () [10.1103/44zp-mh1q]  GO OpenAccess  Download fulltext Files  Download fulltextFulltext by arXiv.org BibTeX | EndNote: XML, Text | RIS

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Search for cascade decays of charged sleptons and sneutrinos in final states with three leptons and missing transverse momentum in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector
Physical review / D 112(1), 012005 () [10.1103/6gy3-cb4t]  GO OpenAccess  Download fulltext Files  Download fulltextFulltext by arXiv.org BibTeX | EndNote: XML, Text | RIS

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Charged-hadron and identified-hadron $(K_S^0, Λ, Ξ^−)$ yield measurements in photonuclear Pb+Pb and p+Pb collisions at $\sqrt{{s}_{NN}}$ = 5.02 TeV with ATLAS
Physical review / C 111(6), 064908 () [10.1103/7lx4-x8rw]  GO OpenAccess  Download fulltext Files  Download fulltextFulltext by arXiv.org BibTeX | EndNote: XML, Text | RIS

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Measurement of $W^{\pm}$-boson differential cross-sections in proton-proton collisions with low pile-up data at $\sqrt{s} = 5.02$ TeV and $13$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
The European physical journal / C 85(7), 729 () [10.1140/epjc/s10052-025-14178-x]  GO OpenAccess  Download fulltext Files  Download fulltextFulltext by arXiv.org BibTeX | EndNote: XML, Text | RIS

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