TASI 2008 lectures on Collider Signals II: E_T^missing signatures and the dark matter connection

Understand

These lectures give an overview of aspects of missing E_T signatures from new physics at the LHC, along with their important connection to dark matter physics.

• Mostly, I will concentrate on supersymmetric (SUSY) sources of missing E_T, but will also mention Little Higgs models with T-parity (LHT) and universal extra dimensions (UED) models with KK-parity.
• Lecture 1 covers SUSY basics, model building and spectra computation.
• Lecture 2 addresses sparticle production and decay mechanisms at hadron colliders and event generation.