Dark Matter Jets at the LHC

Understand

We argue that dark matter particles which have strong interactions with the Standard Model particles are not excluded by current astrophysical constraints.

• These dark matter particles have unique signatures at colliders; instead of missing energy, the dark matter particles produce jets.
• We propose a new search strategy for such strongly interacting particles by looking for a signal of two trackless jets.
• We show that suitable cuts can plausibly allow us to find these signals at the LHC even in early data.