Global fits of simplified models for dark matter with GAMBIT I. Scalar and fermionic models with s-channel vector mediators

Understand

Simplified models provide a useful way to study the impacts of a small number of new particles on experimental observables and the interplay of those observables, without the need to construct an underlying theory.

• In this study, we perform global fits of simplified dark matter models with GAMBIT using an up-to-date set of likelihoods for indirect detection, direct detection and collider searches.
• We investigate models in which a scalar or fermionic dark matter candidate couples to quarks via an s-channel vector mediator.
• Large parts of parameter space survive for each model.