Discovering Dark Matter Through Flavor Violation at the LHC
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✦ hep-ph
hep-ex
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flavorviolatingdarkdiscoverylargemattermodelsproduction
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We show that the discovery channel for dark matter (DM) production at colliders can be through flavor violating interactions resulting in a novel signature of a single top and large missing transverse energy. We discuss several examples where the production of DM is dominated by flavor violating couplings: minimal flavor violating models with a large bottom Yukawa, models with horizontal symmetries, and DM in nontrivial flavor group representations. Discovery at the 7 TeV LHC with a few fb^-1 may already be possible.
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