Next-to-Leading Order Predictions for Dark Matter Production at Hadron Colliders

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We provide Next-to-Leading Order (NLO) predictions for Dark Matter (DM) production in association with either a jet or a photon at hadron colliders.

• In particular we study the production of a pair of fermionic DM particles through a mediator which couples to SM via either a vector, axial-vector, scalar, pseudo-scalar, or gluon-induced coupling.
• Experimental constraints on the scale of new physics associated with these operators are limited by systematics, highlighting the need for NLO signal modeling.
• We factorize the NLO QCD and the DM parts of the calculation, allowing the possibility of using the results presented here for a large variety of searches in monojet and monophoton final states.